ERIC Number: ED572166
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Publication Date: 2016-Aug
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Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog System for Second-Language Learning
Kwon, Oh-Woog; Kim, Young-Kil; Lee, Yunkeun
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2016 Conference (23rd, Limassol, Cyprus, Aug 24-27, 2016)
This paper introduces a Dialog-Based Computer Assisted second-Language Learning (DB-CALL) system using task-oriented dialogue processing technology. The system promotes dialogue with a second-language learner for a specific task, such as purchasing tour tickets, ordering food, passing through immigration, etc. The dialog system plays a role of a ticket agent, a waiter, or an immigration officer at each task and the learner completes the task through talking with the system in the second-languages. The system gives a new situation of the task at every trial, so that the learner could have a different experience and learn various expressions in the same task. Our DB-CALL system is based on a task-oriented dialog system consisting of a language understanding module using a structural support vector model and a dynamic dialog graph based dialog management module. Our task-oriented dialog system is trained from the intention-annotated real dialog scripts. The experiments for the performance of our proposed dialog system show the average task success rate of 85.52%, the average turn success rate of 85.32%, and the average turn length of 14.61. In a satisfactory survey targeting the subjects, the subjects agreed that our system makes them learn the second-language more efficiently and with less effort. [For the complete volume of short papers, see ED572005.]
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Scripts, Statistical Analysis, Student Surveys, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Language Teachers, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
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