Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dybkjær, Laila (Editor), Minker, Wolfgang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 39
• Subjects: Linguistics.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Semantics.; Linguistics, general.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Linguistics.

This book is a collection of eleven chapters which together represent an original contribution to the field of (multimodal) spoken dialogue systems. The chapters include highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems, evaluation, miscommunication and...

Table of Contents:

• Where Do We Go from Here?
• Designing Speech-Controlled Media File Selection for Automotive Systems
• A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction
• Evaluating Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Telephone Services
• Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother?
• Sorry, I Didn’t Catch That!
• Galatea: A Discourse Modeller Supporting Concept-Level Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems
• Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management
• Does This Answer Your Question?
• Meeting Structure Annotation
• Analyzing Dependencies Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus.