SESSION 13: NEW DIRECTIONS
Ralph Weischedel · 1975
The three papers of Session 13 address issues differing from those in the remainder of the workshop. Two employ a methodology to discover preferences for speech input in a multimodal interface. The third raises issues of processing human language without any assumption that the speech or text has been converted to an online sequence of ASCII characters (or other character codes). As an introduction to the first two papers, consider Wizard of Oz experiments such as used in collecting ATIS data. In such an experiment, the subject is asked to use a system to solve one or more problems. The "system " could be a person who simulates a proposed capability, for instance