The goal of the Spoken Dialogue Challenge http://dialrc.org/sdc
is to enable as many research groups in the field as possible to compare results on similar tasks. The field of spoken dialogue research is large, encompassing areas of interest that are as different as reinforcement learning and error recovery on the theoretical level and telephone-based services and multiparty, multimodal conversations on the application level. Although one challenge cannot initially bring all of the different interests together, SDC is being created as a framework where challenge patterns can be tried and expanded as experience and community feedback dictate.

This space is open to the community to participate in the discussion of how the challenge should be conducted. We encourage you to leave your comments and sign your name.

There was a lively discussion of what the reinforcement learning part of the challenge could be this year at SIGDIAL09. slides

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