Livre: Spoken Dialogue Systems

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:49:53 -0500
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki)
Michael McTear (University of Ulster)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #5 (Morgan &  
Claypool Publishers), 2009, 151 pages

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development
of dialogue systems that support robust and efficient human-machine
interaction using spoken language. Spoken dialogue technology allows
various interactive applications to be built and used for practical
purposes, and research focuses on issues that aim to increase the
system's communicative competence by including aspects of error
correction, cooperation, multimodality, and adaptation in context.

This book gives a comprehensive view of state-of-the-art techniques
that are used to build spoken dialogue systems. It provides an
overview of the basic issues such as system architectures, various
dialogue management methods, system evaluation, and also surveys
advanced topics concerning extensions of the basic model to more
conversational setups.

The goal of the book is to provide an introduction to the methods,  
problems, and solutions that are used in dialogue system development  
and evaluation. It presents dialogue modelling and system development  
issues relevant in both academic and industrial environments and also  
discusses requirements and challenges for advanced interaction  
management and future research.

Table of Contents: Preface / Introduction to Spoken Dialogue Systems /  
Dialogue Management / Error Handling / Case Studies: Advanced  
Approaches to Dialogue Management / Advanced Issues / Methodologies  
and Practices of Evaluation / Future Directions / References / Author  
Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00204ED1V01Y200910HLT005


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