Wolfgang Minker

Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room

2018

With the emergence of new technologies, the surgical working environment becomes increasingly complex and comprises many medical devices which have to be monitored and controlled.With the aim of improving productivity and reducing the workload for …

System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator

2023

In this work, we study dialogue scenarios that start from chit-chat but eventually switch to task-related services, and investigate how a unified dialogue model, which can engage in both chit-chat and task-oriented dialogues, takes the …