Example-based error recovery strategy for spoken dialog system

Abstract

Error handling has become an important issue in spoken dialog systems. We describe an example-based approach to detect and repair errors in an example-based dialog modeling framework. Our approach to error recovery is focused on the re-phrase strategy with a system and a task guidance to help the novice users to re-phrase well-recognizable and well-understandable input. The dialog system gives possible utterance templates and contents related to the current situation when errors are detected. An empirical evaluation of the car navigation system shows that our approach is effective to the novice users for operating the spoken dialog system.