Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design

Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design
Author: Wolfgang Minker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1441979344

Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design covers key topics in the field of spoken language dialogue interaction from a variety of leading researchers. It brings together several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction, as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure. These topics are all part of the general research and development within the area of discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on dialogue systems; corpora and corpus tools and semantic and pragmatic modelling of discourse and dialogue.

Spoken Dialogue Technology

Spoken Dialogue Technology
Author: Michael F. McTear
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0857294148

Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems. The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+ voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. The latest research in spoken dialogue systems is presented along with extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues and a critical evaluation of current research prototypes. A dedicated web site containing supplementary materials, code, links to resources will enable readers to develop and test their own systems (). Previously such materials have been difficult to track down, available only on a range of disparate web sites and this web site provides a unique and useful reference source which will prove invaluable.

Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop

Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop
Author: Ramón López-Cózar Delgado
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2011-08-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461413354

This volume includes proceedings articles presented at the Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems held in Granada, Spain. The material focuses on the three broad areas of spoken dialogue systems for robotics, emotions and spoken dialogue systems, and Spoken dialogue systems for real-world applications The workshop proceedings are part of the 3rd Annual International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, which brings together researchers from all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications, and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology
Author: Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811394431

This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness.

Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments

Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments
Author: Gary Geunbae Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642162029

Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWDS 2010, held in Gotemba, Japan, in October 2010. The 22 session papers presented together with 2 invited keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers deal with topics around Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environment and discuss common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques.

Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems

Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems
Author: Alexander Schmitt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461445922

In Monitoring Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems, authors Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker investigate statistical approaches that allow for recognition of negative dialog patterns in Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). The presented stochastic methods allow a flexible, portable and accurate use. Beginning with the foundations of machine learning and pattern recognition, this monograph examines how frequently users show negative emotions in spoken dialog systems and develop novel approaches to speech-based emotion recognition using hybrid approach to model emotions. The authors make use of statistical methods based on acoustic, linguistic and contextual features to examine the relationship between the interaction flow and the occurrence of emotions using non-acted recordings several thousand real users from commercial and non-commercial SDS. Additionally, the authors present novel statistical methods that spot problems within a dialog based on interaction patterns. The approaches enable future SDS to offer more natural and robust interactions. This work provides insights, lessons and inspiration for future research and development, not only for spoken dialog systems, but for data-driven approaches to human-machine interaction in general.

Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics
Author: Zygmunt Vetulani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2014-07-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319089587

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The 44 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the following topics: speech, parsing, computational semantics, text analysis, text annotation, language resources: general issues, language resources: ontologies and Wordnets and machine translation.

Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence

Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence
Author: Ying Tan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319204696

This book and its companion volumes, LNCS volumes 9140, 9141 and 9142, constitute the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2015 held in conjunction with the Second BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence, CCI 2015, held in Beijing, China in June 2015. The 161 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 294 submissions. The papers are organized in 28 cohesive sections covering all major topics of swarm intelligence and computational intelligence research and development, such as novel swarm-based optimization algorithms and applications; particle swarm opt8imization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; evolutionary and genetic algorithms; differential evolution; brain storm optimization algorithm; biogeography based optimization; cuckoo search; hybrid methods; multi-objective optimization; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy methods; data mining approaches; information security; automation control; combinatorial optimization algorithms; scheduling and path planning; machine learning; blind sources separation; swarm interaction behavior; parameters and system optimization; neural networks; evolutionary and genetic algorithms; fuzzy systems; forecasting algorithms; classification; tracking analysis; simulation; image and texture analysis; dimension reduction; system optimization; segmentation and detection system; machine translation; virtual management and disaster analysis.

Speech Technology

Speech Technology
Author: Fang Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387738193

This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.

Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade

Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade
Author: Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2020-10-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811583951

This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to the classical problems of dialogue management, language generation, question answering, human–robot interaction, chatbots design and evaluation, as well as topics related to the human nature of the conversational phenomena such as humour, social context, specific applications for e-health, understanding, and awareness