Date: 20-Dec-2009 From: Andrea Descoteaux Hugg <andreamorganclaypool.com> Subject: Spoken Dialogue Systems: Jokinen, McTear E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Spoken Dialogue Systems
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
Published: 2009
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Author: Kristiina Jokinen
Author: Michael McTear
Electronic: ISBN: 1598295993 9781598295993 Pages: 151 Price: U.K. £ 22.50
Electronic: ISBN: 1598295993 9781598295993 Pages: 151 Price: U.S. $ 40.00
Abstract:
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
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
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