Since the language generation module works in parallel with the language understanding module , utterance generation is possible even while the system is listening to user utterances and that utterance understanding is possible even while it is speaking ( Nakano et al. , 1999a ) .
understanding unsegmented user utterances in realtime spoken dialogue systems
Mikio Nakano Noboru Miyazalci Jun-ichi Hirasawa Kohji Dohsaka Takeshi Kawabata
In typical question-answer systems , the user has the initiative when asking questions and the system has it when answering . Since the language generation module works in parallel with the language understanding module , utterance generation is possible even while the system is listening to user utterances and that utterance understanding is possible even while it is speaking ( Nakano et al. , 1999a ) . Thus the system can respond immediately after user pauses when the user has the initiative .
Since the language generation module works in parallel with the language understanding module , utterance generation is possible even while the system is listening to user utterances and that utterance understanding is possible even while it is speaking ( @@CITATIONa ) .