Summary of An Analysis Of User Behaviors For Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems, by Koji Inoue et al.
An Analysis of User Behaviors for Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems
by Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Gabriel Skantze
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework aims to objectively evaluate spoken dialogue systems by analyzing users’ behaviors. The study investigates the relationship between user behaviors and subjective evaluation scores in various social dialogue tasks, including attentive listening, job interview, and first-meeting conversation. The results show that different behavioral indicators are significant for each task type, such as utterance count, word count, disfluency, and turn-taking metrics. This research contributes to establishing standardized evaluation schemes for spoken dialogue systems, enabling researchers to compare and reproduce results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study tries to figure out how people behave when they talk with machines. They looked at three types of conversations: listening carefully, a job interview, and a first meeting. The researchers found that different behaviors are important for each type of conversation. For example, in some conversations, it’s helpful to count the number of words said by the person. In other conversations, how often they switch between talking and listening is important. This study helps us understand how to evaluate these kinds of machine-human interactions better. |
