Deliverables

The final project deliverables (2011) are now available (see below).

Project corpora are also available at the Annotated Data Archive.

Month 6

•   Requirements analysis and theory for statistical learning approaches in automata-based dialogue management:  D1.1.1 (report)

•   Initial communication architecture, protocols, and module interfaces:  D5.1.1 (report, restricted)

Month 12

• Training tools and semantic decoder for the TownInfo task: D2.1  (prototype)

• Adaptive automata-based DM component, first prototype:  D1.1.2 (prototype, restricted)

• Improved POMDP-based dialogue system:  D1.4.1 (prototype)

• Semantic decoder which exploits syntactic-semantic parsing, for the TownInfo task: D2.2 (prototype)

• Shared dialogue context model (XML schema):  D3.1 (report)

• Re-ranking alternative inputs to the speech synthesizer, Self-Help system:  D4.1 (prototype, confidential)

• Initial CLASSIC “TownInfo” system (“System 1”) :  D5.2.1 (prototype, restricted)

• Initial France Telecom industrial plat form adapted to CLASSIC architecture (“System 3”): D5.3.1 (prototype, restricted)

Month 15

• M13 Initial evaluation of CLASSIC TownInfo and Self-Help systems:  D6.3 (report, restricted)

Month 18

• M14 Domain-limited TTS corpus for expressive speech synthesis and Wizard-of-OZ data for NLG strategies:  D6.1.1 (report)
• M15 New frameworks for generalization, with implementation in DIPPER ISU DM system:  D1.2 (prototype)
• M16 Semantic parser for French built using one for English:  D2.3 (prototype)
• M17 User simulations for training in the (PO)MDP framework including the simulation of grounding: D3.2 (prototype)
• M18 Optimal Wizard NLG behaviours in context:  D4.2 (report)
• M19 Generating expressive TTS variants, Self-Help system:  D4.3 (prototype, confidential)

Month 21

• D6.1.2 Initial Appointment Scheduling Data Collection for Task-Oriented Dialogue:  D6.1.2 (report)

Month 24

• POMDP learning for ISU dialogue management: D1.3 (prototype) 
• Summary-based policy optimisation: D1.4.2 (report)
• Simulated users for training NLG (TownInfo/Self-Help): D3.3 (prototype)
• Metrics for the evaluation of user simulations: D3.5 (report)
• Final communication architecture, protocols, and module interfaces:  D5.1.2 (report)
• Advanced Appointment Scheduling Data Collection for Task-Oriented Dialogue:  D6.1.3 (report)
• Semantic Role Annotation of a French-English Corpus: D6.2 (report)

Month 27

Month 30

• D3.4 Agenda-based user simulations and EM training tools for TownInfo and Appointment Scheduling domains  (prototype)
• D3.6 User simulations of different types of Appointment Scheduling and Self-Help user (prototype)

 Month 36

• D1.1.3 Adaptive automata-based DM component, final prototype (prototype)
• D1.5 Report on online adaptation of dialogue systems (report)
• D2.5 Improved models of syntactic-semantic parsing, for English and French (prototype)
• D4.5 Testing learned NLG and TTS policies with real users, in Self-Help and Appointment Scheduling systems (report)
• D6.4 Final evaluation of CLASSIC TownInfo and Appointment Scheduling systems (report) 
• D6.5 Annotated data archive: : Website :  report: document