Papers by Maria Schmidt
Towards an Automatic Assessment of Crowdsourced Data for NLU (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent development of spoken dialog systems aims at allowing a natural input style. |
| Approach: | They investigate how crowdsourced data can be assessed with respect to its naturalness and usefulness by using a word based language model to identify valid data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods show that valid data can be identified with the help of a word based language model. |
How Users React to Proactive Voice Assistant Behavior While Driving (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Nowadays Personal Assistants (PAs) are available in multiple environments and become increasingly popular to use via voice. |
| Approach: | They conducted a usability study in which 42 participants perceive proactive voice output in a Wizard-of-Oz study in . traffic density was varied during a highway drive and it included six in-car-specific use cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed suggestions should not be obtrusive nor increase drivers’ cognitive load, while enhancing user experience. |