CI-ADDO-NEW: Dialog Research Center (DialRC)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。今天的口语对话系统（SDS）使人类和机器之间的口头交流有限。DialRC为整个SDS社区提供培训、数据、通用研究平台和挑战，以推动其结果达到下一个水平。DialRC为新的和高级的研究人员协调研讨会和教程，提供来自部署的SDS的大量数据，提供一个可以运行研究的平台，并管理一个可以比较研究的挑战。DialRC的一个新颖之处在于可以访问大量的真实用户。这将转化为能够更好地适应现实世界条件的SDS，从而实现更自然、更有效的通信。其他领域的协调挑战有助于集中研究工作，并在同一环境下提供技术比较。这些挑战的结果是该领域的研究成果急剧增加。DialRC的口语对话挑战将在SDS领域提供相同的变化。DialRC是信息、软件、实验技术和数据交换的中心点。它正在将美国的研究转变为人类与机器互动的高度竞争和创新力量。由于DialRC提供的协调和广泛的服务，SDS研究人员现在能够改善每个人的信息访问。www.dialrc.org

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Today's spoken dialogue systems (SDS) enable limited verbal communication between humans and machines. DialRC serves the whole SDS community with training, data, a common research platform and a challenge in order to push its results to the next level. DialRC coordinates workshops and tutorials for new and for advanced researchers, provides large amounts of data from deployed SDS, offers a platform where studies can be run and manages a challenge where research can be compared. A novel aspect of DialRC is the access to large quantities of real users. This translates into SDS that can be better adapted to real world conditions and thus to more natural and efficient communication. Coordinated challenges in other areas have helped focus research efforts and provided comparisons of techniques in one same environment. The result of these challenges has been a dramatic increase in findings in the area. DialRC's Spoken Dialogue Challenge will afford the same changes in the SDS domain.DialRC is a central point of exchange of information, software, experimental techniques and data. It is transforming American research into a highly competitive and innovative force for human interaction with machines. Due to the coordinated and wide-reaching services that DialRC offers, SDS researchers are now able to improve information access for everyman.www.dialrc.org