EAGER: The REAL Challenge

渴望：真正的挑战

• 批准号: 1347063
• 负责人: Maxine Eskenazi
• 金额: $ 5.27万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1347063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; REAL; Challenge

The speech and spoken dialog communities watched with interest as the world discovered Apple's SIRI. One of the first applications of an advanced spoken dialog system to a real world problem, it captured the imagination of potential users; the idea of speaking to an object to obtain information or direct an action has entered into the public mind, and the possibilities seem endless. Yet despite the potential advantages, academia has so far created few spoken dialog systems that serve real users and real applications. In the first three years of being open to the research community, the Let's Go system developed by the PI and her team was used for over 150 publications, including 18 theses outside of its host institution. The speech and spoken dialog communities clearly need more real world systems that furnish data, free architectures and research platforms. The PI's goal in this project is to foster such new real world systems, which will give the speech and spoken dialog communities steady streams of data as well as research platforms that they can use to run studies. The project will engage seasoned researchers (who know what will work and what will not), along with high school and undergraduate students (whose younger minds are free to imagine what speech applications can become, uninfluenced by research results or funding concerns), in an effort to find the next great speech applications. Broader Impacts: The REAL Challenge will be the spark that ignites the creation of novel real speech applications. The project will address a broad range of students and invigorate research in a way that can be used in other areas of natural language research. It will inspire a new generation of researchers and provide a unique opportunity for young students to work with seasoned researchers. The novel applications that will be found will ultimately be of help to the general public, whether it be for better access to information, for interaction with a robotic helpmate, or perhaps for a new way of communicating with others using social networks.

演讲和对话社区饶有兴趣地关注着世界发现苹果的Siri。高级口语对话系统是解决现实世界问题的最早应用之一，它激发了潜在用户的想象力；与对象对话以获取信息或指导行动的想法已经进入公众头脑，可能性似乎是无穷无尽的。然而，尽管有潜在的优势，学术界到目前为止还没有创造出服务于真实用户和真实应用的口语对话系统。在向研究界开放的头三年里，由PI和她的团队开发的We‘s Go系统被用于150多种出版物，其中包括18篇在其主办机构以外的论文。演讲和口语对话社区显然需要更多现实世界的系统来提供数据、免费的架构和研究平台。PI在这个项目中的目标是培育这样的新的现实世界系统，这将为演讲和口语对话社区提供稳定的数据流以及他们可以用来进行研究的研究平台。该项目将吸引经验丰富的研究人员(他们知道什么可行，什么不可行)，以及高中生和本科生(他们的年轻人可以自由想象语音应用程序会变成什么，不受研究结果或资金问题的影响)，努力寻找下一个伟大的语音应用程序。更广泛的影响：真正的挑战将是点燃创造新的真实语音应用的火花。该项目将面向广泛的学生，并以一种可用于自然语言研究其他领域的方式促进研究。它将激励新一代研究人员，并为年轻学生提供与经验丰富的研究人员合作的独特机会。无论是为了更好地获取信息、与机器人助手互动，还是使用社交网络与他人沟通的一种新方式，最终将发现的新应用程序将对普通公众有所帮助。