User modeling by using bag-of-behaviors for building a dialog system sensitive to the interlocutor's internal state

Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito, Masashi Ito

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Abstract

When using spoken dialog systems in actual environments, users sometimes abandon the dialog without making any input utterance. To help these users before they give up, the system should know why they could not make an utterance. Thus, we have examined a method to estimate the state of a dialog user by capturing the user's non-verbal behavior even when the user's utterance is not observed. The proposed method is based on vector quantization of multi-modal features such as non-verbal speech, feature points of the face, and gaze. The histogram of the VQ code is used as a feature for determining the state. We call this feature "the Bagof-Behaviors." According to the experimental results, we prove that the proposed method surpassed the results of conventional approaches and discriminated the target user's states with an accuracy of more than 70%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGDIAL 2014 - 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages74-78
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643211
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2014 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: 2014 Jun 182014 Jun 20

Publication series

NameSIGDIAL 2014 - 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Other

Other15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia
Period14/6/1814/6/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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