Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog

Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon


Abstract
We collected a corpus of human-human task-oriented dialogs rich in dissatisfaction and built a model that used prosodic features to predict when the user was likely dissatisfied. For utterances this attained a F.25 score of 0.62,against a baseline of 0.39. Based on qualitative observations and failure analysis, we discuss likely ways to improve this result to make it have practical utility.
Anthology ID:
2021.sigdial-1.2
Volume:
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
July
Year:
2021
Address:
Singapore and Online
Editors:
Haizhou Li, Gina-Anne Levow, Zhou Yu, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Siqi Cai, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Yan Wu, Junyi Jessy Li
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
13–20
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sigdial-1.2
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Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, and Aaron M. Alarcon. 2021. Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 13–20, Singapore and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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