@InProceedings{Supelec18,
author = {Olivier Pietquin},
title = {{A Probabilistic Description of Man-Machine Spoken Communication}},
year = {2005},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005)}},
pages = {410-413},
month = {July},
address = {Amsterdam (The Netherlands)},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp\'etp=\&arnumber=1521447\&isnumber=32544},
abstract = {Speech enabled interfaces and spoken dialog sys-tems are mostly
based on statistical speech and lan-guage processing modules.
Their behavior is therefore not deterministic and hardly
predictable. This makes the simulation and the optimization of
such systems performances difficult, as well as the reuse of
previous work to build new systems. In the aim of a partially
automated optimization of such systems, this paper presents a
formalism attempt for the description of man-machine spoken
communication in the framework of spoken dialog systems. This
formalization is partly based on a probabilistic description of
the information processing occurring in each module composing a
spoken dialog system but also on a stochastic user modeling.
Eventually, some possible applications of this theoretic
framework are proposed.}
}