Extending VERA Conference Information Design Specification

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Extending VERA(Conference Information)Design
Specification Schedules

• Arthur Chan (AC)
• Rohit Kumar (RK)
• Lingyun Gao (LG)

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Resources We Need

• Support from Ravenclaw Developers
• On how to setup Ravenclaw
• AC, RK,LG all have a windows XP machine and ready
  to set up Ravenclaw
• Creation of backend
• Interspeech 2005,
• LG will parse the backend

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Specification

• Based on notion similar to Rohit fill in IBMs
  paper name here
• Every subdialogue will need
• Prompt
• Confirmation
• Expected Input (Grammar, LM, w/wo Parser)
• Condition on how to go to other dialogue

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Dialogue Graph

• Rohit fill in the graph here
• Could use multi pages

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Sample Dialog 1 If everything goes smoothy

• System Welcome to the Interspeech 2006
  Conference Information System. How may I help
  you?
• User Can I have the session information for
  Wednesday?
• System successfully parse the two information,
  session info and date
• System On which time period you want the
  information?
• User From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• System successfully narrow down the number of
  sessions (N).
• System We have identified 5 sessions on
  Wednesday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. They are is that
  what you want?
• User Yes
• System Can I help you on other things today?
• User No
• System Thanks for using the VERA system

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Sample Dialog 2 If non-understanding in main-menu

• System Welcome to the Interspeech 2006
  Conference Information System. How may I help
  you?
• User Can I have the session information for
  Wednesday?
• System doesnt understand, decide to go into a
  more restricted system-initiative dialogues
• System What kind of information do you want? You
  can say Session Information, Keywords and
  Paper Information.
• User Session Information
• Assuming system does no confirmation, in
  reality, system confirm when scores are higher
  than a certain confidence threshold
• System On which date do you want the session
  information? For example, you can say July
  fifteenth or Thursday
• User Thursday.
• System On which period of time do you want the
  information? For example, you can say, from 200
  p.m. to 400 p.m.
• User from 900 a.m. to 1200 p.m.
• System gives the information as in Dialogue 1

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Schedules

• Feb 6 - Feb 12 Design, Create 1st Specification
• Feb 13 - Feb 26 Get Ravenclaw up and running,
  try to build sample applications.
• Feb 27 - Mar 13 Create sub-dialogues Info,
  Area, Time, Date, Title of Papers
• Mat 14 - Mar 20 Spring Break
• Mar 21 - Apr 2 Create main menu build LM that
  could accept natural dialogue
• Apr 3 - Apr 16 Link Sub-dialogue together
• Apr 17 - May 1 Fine tuning. Input further
  research ideas

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Notes

• Schedules assume 2 hours work per week from each
  member
• Reality will be different and re-scheduling will
  be done if needed
• Current specification has gaps which requires
  actual understanding of the tools, we will fill
  in the right timing