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SDC: The Spoken Dialog Challenge. Maxine Eskenazi Alan Black. SDC: the Spoken Dialog Challenge. Organized by the Dialog Research Center (NSF-sponsored) Guided by Community input Uses a common platform to compare research techniques to compare evaluation techniques
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SDC: The Spoken Dialog Challenge Maxine Eskenazi Alan Black
SDC: the Spoken Dialog Challenge • Organized by the Dialog Research Center (NSF-sponsored) • Guided by Community input • Uses a common platform • to compare research techniques • to compare evaluation techniques • to compare simulated users • Share: • Data • System (optional) • Access to real users
SDC 2010 • October 2009: Training webcasts • January 2010: Data distributed • January 2010 - April 2010: Development period • May 2010: Control tests • July - August 2010: Live tests • December 2010: Reporting: Special Session SLT
Getting started • Task: bus information using the Let’s Go system with real users • Dialog data distributed: • 700GB (1 year of data, ~14,000 dialogs) • Labeled (crowdsourcing and some expert) • Detailed logs and audio • Base system distributed: • Olympus, training sessions, but participants could use their own systems
What happened? • Participants:Academia and industry, internationally • Four systems in control test • Three systems in live test • Three evaluation schemes • One simulated user system • Scheme to transfer calls to other countries (thanks to ATT!) • Want to know the results? Come to SLT!
SDC 2011 • Same application • Allows those who did not participate this year to join • “first pancake” this year • Will allow comparison over two years • Looking for new applications with real users for SDC 2012 • Aiming at publications and a teaching tool – two tracks
SDC 2011 Schedule • Track 1 SDC 2011 Track 2SDC 2011 Primary TrackSecondary track • 2010 Nov Development2010 Dec Development2011 Jan Development2011 Feb Development2011 Mar Control Tests2011 Apr Control TestsDevelopment Dry Runs 2011 May CT labeling Development2011 Jun CT results DevelopmentLive Test/Sim2011 Jul Live Test/SimDevelopment2011 Aug Live Test/SimControl Tests2011 Sep LT labelling Control Tests Dry runs 2011 Oct LT results CT labeling EvaluationSDC2012Stream 12011 Nov Evaluation CT Results DevelopmentLive Test/SimDevelopment2011 Dec EvaluationLive Test/SimDevelopment2012 Jan Live Test/SimDevelopment2012 Feb LT labeling Control Tests2012 Mar LT results Control TestsEvaluation ... 2012 Apr Evaluation2012 May Evaluation
SDC • Questions?
max@cmu.edu • awb@cs.cmu.edu