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Seminar Announcement:
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar
DCLRS 2008/2009
DCU DIT TCD UCD
Venue: Jonathan Swift Lecture Theatre (Arts Building 2041a)
Trinity College Dublin
Time: 16:00, Friday, February 6, 2009
Title:
A framework for an efficient evaluation of spoken dialogue services
Speaker:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller
Quality and Usability Lab, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
TU Berlin
Abstract:
Evaluating the quality and usability of spoken dialogue services is
usually a cumbersome and expensive process. As a result, evaluations
are commonly restricted to an absolute minimum, resulting in
low-quality services. Based on a tripartite framework of the
evaluation process, components for a model assessing the quality of
spoken dialogue services in a semi-automatic way will be
developed. The framework consists of a behaviour model describing the
interaction, a perception and judgment model describing the processes
leading to a quality event, and a value model interpreting the users’
quality judgments. Although not all model components are yet
available, a simulation approach for prediction user actions in
response to a spoken dialogue system will be presented. The talk
concludes with an outlook on missing components and some ideas for
their implementation.
Biography:
Sebastian Möller was born in 1968 and studied electrical engineering
at the universities of Bochum (Germany), Orléans (France) and Bologna
(Italy). From 1994 to 2005, he held the position of a scientific
researcher at the Institute of Communication Acoustics (IKA),
Ruhr-University Bochum, and worked on speech signal processing, speech
technology, communication acoustics, as well as on speech
communication quality aspects. Since June 2005, he works at Deutsche
Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin. He was appointed Professor at TU
Berlin for the subject "Usability" in April 2007, and heads the
"Quality and Usability Lab" at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.
He received a Doctor-of-Engineering degree at Ruhr-University Bochum
in 1999 for his work on the assessment and prediction of speech
quality in telecommunications. In 2000, he was a guest scientist at
the Institut dalle Molle d'Intélligence Artificielle Perceptive
(IDIAP) in Martigny (Switzerland) where he worked on the quality of
speech recognition systems. He gained the qualification needed to be a
professor (venia legendi) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2004, with a book
on the quality of telephone-based spoken dialogue systems. In
September 2008, we worked as a Visiting Fellow at MARCS Auditory
Laboratories, University of Western Sydney (Australia) on the
evaluation of avatars.
Sebastian Möller was awarded the GEERS prize in 1998 for his
interdisciplinary work on the analysis of infant cries for early
hearing-impairment detection, the ITG prize of the German Association
for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) in 2001,
the Lothar-Cremer prize of the German Acoustical Association (DEGA) in
2003, and a Heisenberg fellowship of the German Research Foundation
(DFG) in 2005. Since 1997, he has taken part in the standardisation
activities of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) on
transmission performance of telephone networks and terminals. He is
currently acting as a Co-Rapporteur for question Q.8/12.
Winter Schedule:
January 16 John Tait (Sunderland)
January 23 Gerhard Jaeger (Bielefeld)
January 30 Pat Healey (Queen Mary)
February 6 Sebastian Moeller
February 13 Alfredo Maldonado Guerra (Microsoft Dublin)
February 20 Dietmar Janetzko (NCI)
February 27 Steve Pulman (Oxford)
March 6 Tim Fernando (TCD)
March 13 Andreas Vlachos (Cambridge)
March 20 TBA
Spring Schedule:
April 3 Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Josef Stefan)
April 10 Public Holiday
April 17 TBA
April 24 Frank Keller (Edinburgh)
May 1 TBA
May 8 Brian Murphy (Trento)
May 15 Kees van Deemter (Aberdeen)
May 22 Elisabeth Andre (Augsburg)
May 29 TBA
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