Special Session at Interspeech 2014.
​Tutorial Dialogues and Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Background
Over the recent years there has been a growing interest in the development of educational applications that use spoken interaction and dialogue technology. Advances have been expected and achieved in both spoken dialogue community and education research community, and the development of such interactive tutorial systems that use spoken language technology has been further boosted by sophisticated speech and multimodal technology which allows functionally suitable and reasonably robust applications to be built.
Goals
The special session focuses on methods, problems and challenges concerning issues emerging from the application of spoken and multimodal interaction technology into various educational settings. It will survey issues related to processing of spoken language in face-to-face interactions, modelling of the teacher-student interaction in MOOC-like environments, and evaluating tutorial dialogue systems from the point of view of natural interaction, technological robustness, and learning outcome.
Paper submission
Papers are elicited concerning the following topics (tentative):
- State-of-the-art and development of spoken language technology in interactive
tutorial dialogue applications
- Different approaches to robust and efficient educational interaction management
- Resources for designing interactive educational systems
- Non-verbal aspects in tutorial discourse
- Student/teacher relation, attitudes, empathy, emotions etc. in tutorial applications
- Techniques and methods for spoken interaction management in tutorial dialogues
- Dialogue managers that support educational dialogues
- Challenges for tutorial interactive applications in different learning environments
- How much and what kind of personality is needed of the tutor dialogue system
- Human-robot interactive systems in educational settings
- Intercultural aspects of tutorial dialogues
- Cognitive underpinnings in the creation of interactive tutorial system
- Integration of speech and NLP methods for content management in educational systems
- Evaluation of tutorial applications
Paper submission will follow the guidelines for the main Interspeech conference
submission, and their deadline will accord with the general timetable of the main
conference. Submissions will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee,
which consists of the renown experts in the both fields of spoken dialogues and
educational applications.
Organizers
Maxine Eskenazi, Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki and University of Tartu
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Martin Russel
MaMax
Programme Committee
Gérard Bailly
Roman Bednarik
Kay Berkling,
Kristy Boyer
Heriberto Cuayahuitl
Barbara Di Eugenio
Milica Gasic
Gary Geunbae Lee
Tatsuya Kawahara
Mikko Kurimo
Sungjin Lee
Ramon Lopez-Cozar
Wolfgang Minker
Mikio Nakano
Andrew Olney
Svetlana Stoyanchev
Joel Tetreault
MaMax