A Wizard-of-Oz System Evaluation Study.

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Title: A Wizard-of-Oz System Evaluation Study.
Authors: Carbonell, Jaime G., Siekmann, Jörg, Matoušek, Václav, Mautner, Pavel, Hajdinjak, Melita, Mihelič, France
Source: Text, Speech & Dialogue (9783540746270); 2007, p532-539, 8p
Abstract: In order to evaluate the performance of the dialogue-manager component of a developing, Slovenian and Croatian spoken dialogue system, two Wizard-of-Oz experiments were performed. The only difference between the two experiment settings was in the dialogue-management manner, i.e., while in the first experiment dialogue management was performed by a human, the wizard, in the second experiment it was performed by the newly-implemented dialogue-manager component. The data from both Wizard-of-Oz experiments was evaluated with the PARADISE evaluation framework, a potential general methodology for evaluating and comparing different versions of spoken-language dialogue systems. The study ascertains a remarkable difference in the performance functions when taking different satisfaction-measure sums or even individual scores as the target to be predicted, it proves the indispensableness of the recently introduced database parameters when evaluating information-providing dialogue systems, and it confirms the dialogue manager's cooperativity subject to the incorporated knowledge representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_69
Database: Complementary Index