Overview

This book edition highlights recent trends and important issues that still remain only partially solved or even unsolved within the broad ?eld of discourse and dialogue. The ?eld is discussed and illustrated both from an overall spoken (multimodal) dialogue system perspective as well as from a more compone- related perspective. Issues discussed include, for example, discourse and dialogue modelling in research versus industrial spoken dialogue systems, evaluation, miscommunication and error handling, grounding, statistical and corpus-based approaches to discourse and dialogue modelling, data analysis, and corpus annotation and annotation tools. We believe that jointly this collection of chapters provides a good picture of how far we are today within discourse and dialogue and of important ch- lenges ahead. On this background we hope that computer scientists, engineers, and others who work in the broad area of discourse and dialogue, no matter if from an academic or industrial perspective, may bene?t from the book and ?nd it useful to their own work. Graduate students and Ph.D. students focusing on topics in discourse and dialogue may also ?nd the book interesting and pro?t from reading it. This book edition is based on a selected subset of papers from the successful 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2005 in conjunction with the 9th Eurospeech (Interspeech) conf- ence. SIGdial is a special interest group on discourse and dialogue sponsored jointly by the two parent organisations ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association).

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Author:   Laila Dybkjær ,  Wolfgang Minker
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9789048177349

ISBN 10:   9048177340
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   17 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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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.

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From the reviews: Recent trends in discourse and dialogue is essential for research libraries in companies or teaching institutions concerned with voice interaction design or with multimodal interaction design ! . The collection is an up-to-the-moment survey of the field by leading international researchers ! . The book is full of examples, data, and practical advice. ! Recent trends in discourse and dialogue is a significant contribution to the voice-interaction literature ! . (Randy Harris, Technical Communication, Vol. 55 (4), November, 2008)

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