Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments

• Main Authors: Strauß, Petra-Maria (Author), Minker, Wolfgang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and multi-party capabilities pose new challenges on the...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• Multi-Party Dialogue Corpus
• Dialogue Management for a Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue System
• Evaluation
• Conclusions and Future Directions.