Wizard-of-Oz
In Car Multi Domain Spoken Dialogs: A Wizard of Oz Study
... a Wizard of Oz study to investigate how users will carry out tasks which involve multiple ap- plications in a speech-only, user-initiative infotainment system while ...
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Designing intelligent domestic applications using wizard of oz methodology
... of Oz is a method which intercepts communications between users and systems, and returns simulations which mimic smart interactive functionalities with unconstrained ...
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The influence of written task descriptions in Wizard of Oz experiments
... As noted in for instance Richards and Underwood (1985), Jönsson and Dahlbäck (1988) and Wooffitt et al. (1997), people tend to behave differently when interacting with a machine as opposed to a human being. These ...
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Supporting Wizard of Oz experimentation for language technology applications
... human wizard at ...human wizard mostly mimics system performance, timing aspects may impact on the outcome of the experiment, which puts the wizard under a high cognitive workload (Salber and Coutaz ...
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Experiences of an In Service Wizard of Oz Data Collection for the Deployment of a Call Routing Application
... the Wizard-of-Oz option is often dismissed in favour of simpler methods on the ground that it does not scale well in terms of cost and time (for example, Di Fabbrizio et ...Consequently, ...
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Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard of Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
... We propose to learn dialogue strategies by simulation-based RL (Sutton and Barto, 1998), where the simulated environment is learned from small amounts of Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) data. Us- ing WOZ data rather ...
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Using Wizard of Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement Learning based dialog management systems
... The corpus gave no indication of database in- teractions other than what can be inferred from the dialog transcripts. One common wizard action asked the caller to “please wait” when the wizard was waiting ...
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Improving control panel consistency of wizard of oz design and evaluation studies
... The reason of the split control panel having higher response effectiveness may be twofold, first the control panel can be rearranged according to participant preferences, and second the split may make control panel more ...
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MultiWOZ A Large Scale Multi Domain Wizard of Oz Dataset for Task Oriented Dialogue Modelling
... Even though machine learning has become the major scene in dialogue research commu- nity, the real breakthrough has been blocked by the scale of data available. To address this fundamental obstacle, we introduce the ...
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Contextual phenomena and thematic relations in database QA dialogues: results from a Wizard of Oz Experiment
... the Wizard is not sure about how to interpret the missing argument, which can be because of the split antecedents, but also because of the amount of time passed, and/or because one of the answers is still missing, ...
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Differences in User Responses to a Wizard of Oz versus Automated System
... Wizard-of-Oz experimental setup in a dia- logue system is commonly used to gather data for informing an automated version of that system. Previous work has exposed depen- dencies between user behavior ...
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Neutral endopeptidase 24 11 in neutrophils modulates protective effects of natriuretic peptides against neutrophils induced endothelial cytotoxity
... The present study showed that ANP and BNP at the concen- trations of 0.1–10 nmol/liter inhibited the detachment of the cultured endothelial cells by the neutrophils and the adhesive- ness of the neutrophils to the ...
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Quantitative PCR and histopathological assessment of cereal infection by fusarium pseudograminearum
... The Wizard method demonstrated results similar to the Qiagen extractions when using 5 mg extraction weights and while more care must be taken with this procedure to avoid contamination with cell debris, ...
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Performance of Prototype Pneumatic Boxing Gloves under Two Different Conditions of Target Padding
... Even though the force plate was covered by a 25 mm thickness of ethy- lene-vinyl acetate (EVA) material known to have high capacity for shock ab- sorption, we recorded peak impact forces of more than 13,000 Newtons (N) ...
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Ap Prb Ag Bus Dairy pdf
... Ingredient Amount Cost Cost per Total Item Unit Cost Mushrooms 4# $1.49/8 oz $2.98/lb $11.92 Margarine 8 oz $0.49/lb $0.030625/oz $0.25 Onions 2 oz $0.21/lb $0.013125/oz $0.03 Flour 4 ...
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Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies for New Applications: Empirical Methods for Optimization from Small Data Sets
... We present a new data-driven methodology for simulation-based dialogue strategy learning, which allows us to address several problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective ...
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Ask the Wizard: Can I Retire?
... The wizard highlighted the fact that the total retirement income would be $822,506 if the investor bought a single premium income annuity (SPIA) at retirement, or $147,163 more than the 4% rule ...Life ...
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Dialogue Act Modeling for Non Visual Web Access
... Speech-enabled dialogue systems have the potential to enhance the ease with which blind individuals can interact with the Web beyond what is possible with screen read- ers - the currently available assistive tech- nology ...
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Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue
... a wizard-of oz version where a hidden human performed the affect detection and natural language understanding (Forbes-Riley and Litman, 2011b), as well as in a fully automated sys- tem version (Forbes-Riley ...
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Driven to discussion: engaging drivers in conversation with a digital assistant as a countermeasure to passive task related fatigue
... 2.2.1 Wizard-of-Oz: For the purpose of conducting the study, the digital assistant was created using Wizard-of- Oz simulation, with a professional actor (Pablo) embodying ...
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