1. Extending VERA (Conference Information) Design Specification & Schedules Arthur Chan (AC) Rohit Kumar (RK) Lingyun Gao (LG)

2. Resources We Need Support from Ravenclaw Developers  On how to setup Ravenclaw  AC, RK,LG all have a windows XP machine and ready to set up Ravenclaw Creation of backend  Interspeech 2005,  LG will parse the backend

3. Specification Based on notion similar to [Rohit fill in IBM’s paper name here]  Every subdialogue will need  Prompt  Confirmation  Expected Input (Grammar, LM, w/wo Parser)  Condition on how to go to other dialogue

4. Dialogue Graph [Rohit fill in the graph here] [Could use multi pages]

5. Sample Dialog 1: If everything goes smoothy…… System: Welcome to the Interspeech 2006 Conference Information System. How may I help you? User: Can I have the session information for Wednesday? [System successfully parse the two information, session info and date] System: On which time period you want the information? User: From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. [System successfully narrow down the number of sessions (N).] System: We have identified 5 sessions on Wednesday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. They are …… is that what you want? User: Yes System: Can I help you on other things today? User: No System: Thanks for using the VERA system

6. Sample Dialog 2: If non- understanding in main-menu System: Welcome to the Interspeech 2006 Conference Information System. How may I help you? User: Can I have the session information for Wednesday? [System doesn’t understand, decide to go into a more restricted system- initiative dialogues] System: What kind of information do you want? You can say “Session Information”, “Keywords” and “Paper Information”. User: “Session Information” [Assuming system does no confirmation, in reality, system confirm when scores are higher than a certain confidence threshold] System: On which date do you want the session information? For example, you can say “July fifteenth” or “Thursday” User: Thursday. System: On which period of time do you want the information? For example, you can say, “from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.” User: from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.” [System gives the information as in Dialogue 1]

7. Schedules Feb 6 -> Feb 12: Design, Create 1st Specification Feb 13 -> Feb 26: Get Ravenclaw up and running, try to build sample applications. Feb 27 -> Mar 13: Create sub-dialogues: Info, Area, Time, Date, Title of Papers Mat 14 -> Mar 20: Spring Break Mar 21 -> Apr 2: Create main menu: build LM that could accept natural dialogue Apr 3 -> Apr 16: Link Sub-dialogue together Apr 17 -> May 1: Fine tuning. Input further research ideas

8. Notes Schedules assume 2 hours work per week from each member  Reality will be different and re-scheduling will be done if needed Current specification has gaps which requires actual understanding of the tools, we will fill in the right timing