Unconventional Approaches to Gathering and Sharing Resources for Spoken Dialog Research
- Maxine Eskenazi ,
- Sungjin Lee ,
- Tiancheng Zhao ,
- Ting Yao Hu ,
- Alan W Black
LREC 2016 Novel Incentives for Collecting Data and Annotation from People: types, implementation, tasking requirements, workflow and results workshop, Portorož, Slovenia, 2016 |
The DialRC and DialPort projects have employed unconventional approaches to data gathering and resource sharing. The projects started sharing by distributing the speech, transcription and logfile data gathered by the Let’s Go system. That system has responded to over 220,000 calls from real users of the Allegheny County Port Authority. The Let’s Go platform proved to be a
very successful way to run studies, with a dataflow of about 1300 dialogs per month. Thus, DialRC built a research platform that was used by other researchers, enabling then to run studies with the Let’s Go real users. Challenges were also run on this platform. Finally DialPort follows in the footsteps of DialRC by creating a spoken dialog portal with real users that other dialog
systems can be connected to. This paper examines the impact that these activities have had on the spoken dialog research community.