Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mariani, Joseph (Editor), Rosset, Sophie (Editor), Garnier-Rizet, Martine (Editor), Devillers, Laurence (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Language Translation and Linguistics.
• Physical Description: XVI, 397 p. 132 illus., 73 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781461482802

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and, 5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.