SAWDUST: a Semi-Automated Wizard Dialogue Utterance Selection Tool for domain-independent large-domain dialogue
Sudeep Gandhe, David R. Traum · 2014
We present a tool that allows human wiz-ards to select appropriate response utter-ances for a given dialogue context from a set of utterances observed in a dia-logue corpus. Such a tool can be used in Wizard-of-Oz studies and for collecting data which can be used for training and/or evaluating automatic dialogue models. We also propose to incorporate such automatic dialogue models back into the tool as an aid in selecting utterances from a large di-alogue corpus. The tool allows a user to rank candidate utterances for selection ac-cording to these automatic models. 1