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Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems

Author : Elisabeth Meier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540631750
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems by : Elisabeth Meier

Download or read book Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems written by Elisabeth Meier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-06-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop documentation of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, during ECAI'96. The volume presents 16 revised full papers including a detailed introduction and survey paper by the volume editors. The papers are organized in sections on foundations of spoken language dialogue systems, dialogue systems and prosodic aspects of spoken dialogue processing, spoken dialogue systems-design and implementation, and evaluation of systems. The book reports on work being pursued both in academia and in industry as a crucial issue in speech processing.

Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Dafydd Gibbon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461545013
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Dafydd Gibbon

Download or read book Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Dafydd Gibbon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery, geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software with `talking head' artificial tutorial agents are already on the market. The field is expanding rapidly, and new methods and applications emerge almost daily. But good sources of systematic information have not kept pace with the body of information needed for development and evaluation of these systems. Much of this information is widely scattered through speech and acoustic engineering, linguistics, phonetics, and experimental psychology. The Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems presents current and developing best practice in resource creation for speech input/output software and hardware. This volume brings experts in these fields together to give detailed `how to' information and recommendations on planning spoken dialogue systems, designing and evaluating audiovisual and multimodal systems, and evaluating consumer off-the-shelf products. In addition to standard terminology in the field, the following topics are covered in depth: How to collect high quality data for designing, training, and evaluating multimodal and speech dialogue systems; How to evaluate real-life computer systems with speech input and output; How to describe and model human-computer dialogue precisely and in depth. Also included: The first systematic medium-scale compendium of terminology with definitions. This handbook has been especially designed for the needs of development engineers, decision-makers, researchers, and advanced level students in the fields of speech technology, multimodal interfaces, multimedia, computational linguistics, and phonetics.

Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems

Author : Elisabeth Meier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783662172360
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (723 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems by : Elisabeth Meier

Download or read book Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems written by Elisabeth Meier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop documentation of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, during ECAI'96. The volume presents 16 revised full papers including a detailed introduction and survey paper by the volume editors. The papers are organized in sections on foundations of spoken language dialogue systems, dialogue systems and prosodic aspects of spoken dialogue processing, spoken dialogue systems-design and implementation, and evaluation of systems. The book reports on work being pursued both in academia and in industry as a crucial issue in speech processing.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Kristiina Jokinen
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598295993
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Kristiina Jokinen

Download or read book Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Kristiina Jokinen and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Oliver Lemon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461448026
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Book Synopsis Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Oliver Lemon

Download or read book Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Oliver Lemon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data driven methods have long been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis and have more recently been introduced for dialogue management, spoken language understanding, and Natural Language Generation. Machine learning is now present “end-to-end” in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS). However, these techniques require data collection and annotation campaigns, which can be time-consuming and expensive, as well as dataset expansion by simulation. In this book, we provide an overview of the current state of the field and of recent advances, with a specific focus on adaptivity.

Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309049887
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)

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Book Synopsis Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines by : for the National Academy of Sciences

Download or read book Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines written by for the National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applicationsâ€"from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitivenessâ€"are within our grasp. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. The book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.

Spoken Language Processing

Author : Xuedong Huang
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Spoken Language Processing by : Xuedong Huang

Download or read book Spoken Language Processing written by Xuedong Huang and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable progress is being made in spoken language processing, but many powerful techniques have remained hidden in conference proceedings and academic papers, inaccessible to most practitioners. In this book, the leaders of the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research share these advances -- presenting not just the latest theory, but practical techniques for building commercially viable products.KEY TOPICS: Spoken Language Processing draws upon the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: acoustics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, syntax, psychology, and beyond. The book begins by presenting essential background on speech production and perception, probability and information theory, and pattern recognition. The authors demonstrate how to extract useful information from the speech signal; then present a variety of contemporary speech recognition techniques, including hidden Markov models, acoustic and language modeling, and techniques for improving resistance to environmental noise. Coverage includes decoders, search algorithms, large vocabulary speech recognition techniques, text-to-speech, spoken language dialog management, user interfaces, and interaction with non-speech interface modalities. The authors also present detailed case studies based on Microsoft's advanced prototypes, including the Whisper speech recognizer, Whistler text-to-speech system, and MiPad handheld computer.MARKET: For anyone involved with planning, designing, building, or purchasing spoken language technology.

Spoken Dialogue Technology

Author : Michael F. McTear
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0857294148
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Book Synopsis Spoken Dialogue Technology by : Michael F. McTear

Download or read book Spoken Dialogue Technology written by Michael F. McTear and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems

Author : Verena Rieser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642249426
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems by : Verena Rieser

Download or read book Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems written by Verena Rieser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a revolution in the field of spoken dialogue systems. As in other areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, data-driven methods are now being used to drive new methodologies for system development and evaluation. This book is a unique contribution to that ongoing change. A new methodology for developing spoken dialogue systems is described in detail. The journey starts and ends with human behaviour in interaction, and explores methods for learning from the data, for building simulation environments for training and testing systems, and for evaluating the results. The detailed material covers: Spoken and Multimodal dialogue systems, Wizard-of-Oz data collection, User Simulation methods, Reinforcement Learning, and Evaluation methodologies. The book is a research guide for students and researchers with a background in Computer Science, AI, or Machine Learning. It navigates through a detailed case study in data-driven methods for development and evaluation of spoken dialogue systems. Common challenges associated with this approach are discussed and example solutions are provided. This work provides insights, lessons, and inspiration for future research and development – not only for spoken dialogue systems in particular, but for data-driven approaches to human-machine interaction in general.

Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems

Author : Ronnie W. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357914
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems by : Ronnie W. Smith

Download or read book Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems written by Ronnie W. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user model usage, expectation usage for contextual interpretation and error correction, and variable initiative behavior for interacting with users of differing expertise. The book also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, and provides instructions and in-depth result from pertinent experiments. Researchers and professionals in natural language systems will find this important new book an invaluable addition to their libraries.

Designing Interactive Speech Systems

Author : Niels O. Bernsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447108973
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Interactive Speech Systems by : Niels O. Bernsen

Download or read book Designing Interactive Speech Systems written by Niels O. Bernsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the design and implementation of spoken language dialogue within the context of spoken language dialogue systems development. Using an applications-oriented SLDS developed through the Danish Dialogue project, the authors describe the complete process involved; and in so doing present several innovative practical tools, such as dialogue design guidelines, in-depth evaluation methodologies, and speech functionality analysis. Their approach is firmly applications-oriented, describing the results applicable to industry and showing how the development of advanced applications drives research rather than vice versa. For everyone working on the R&D of spoken language services, especially in the area of telecommunications.

Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade

Author : Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811583951
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade by : Luis Fernando D'Haro

Download or read book Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade written by Luis Fernando D'Haro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Sebastian Möller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387231862
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Sebastian Möller

Download or read book Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Sebastian Möller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems is a systematic overview of assessment, evaluation, and prediction methods for the quality of services such as travel and touristic information, phone-directory and messaging, or telephone-banking services. A new taxonomy of quality-of-service is presented which serves as a tool for classifying assessment and evaluation methods, for planning and interpreting evaluation experiments, and for estimating quality. A broad overview of parameters and evaluation methods is given, both on a system-component level and for a fully integrated system. Three experimental investigations illustrate the relationships between system characteristics and perceived quality. The resulting information is needed in all phases of system specification, design, implementation, and operation. Although Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems is written from the perspective of an engineer in telecommunications, it is an invaluable source of information for professionals in signal processing, communication acoustics, computational linguistics, speech and language sciences, human factor design and ergonomics

Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Dirk Bühler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441997288
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Dirk Bühler

Download or read book Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Dirk Bühler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasoning for Information: Seeking and Planning Dialogues provides a logic-based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. This component, called Problem Assistant is responsible for processing constraints on a possible solution obtained from various sources, namely user and the system's domain-specific information. The authors also present findings on the implementation of a dialogue management interface to the Problem Assistant. The dialogue system supports simple mixed-initiative planning interactions in the TRAINS domain, which is still a relatively complex domain involving a number of logical constraints and relations forming the basis for the collaborative problem-solving behavior that drives the dialogue.

Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems

Author : Ramon Lopez Cozar Delgado
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047002156X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems by : Ramon Lopez Cozar Delgado

Download or read book Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems written by Ramon Lopez Cozar Delgado and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue systems are a very appealing technology with an extraordinary future. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogues Systems: Development and Assessment addresses the great demand for information about the development of advanced dialogue systems combining speech with other modalities under a multilingual framework. It aims to give a systematic overview of dialogue systems and recent advances in the practical application of spoken dialogue systems. Spoken Dialogue Systems are computer-based systems developed to provide information and carry out simple tasks using speech as the interaction mode. Examples include travel information and reservation, weather forecast information, directory information and product order. Multimodal Dialogue Systems aim to overcome the limitations of spoken dialogue systems which use speech as the only communication means, while Multilingual Systems allow interaction with users that speak different languages. Presents a clear snapshot of the structure of a standard dialogue system, by addressing its key components in the context of multilingual and multimodal interaction and the assessment of spoken, multilingual and multimodal systems In addition to the fundamentals of the technologies employed, the development and evaluation of these systems are described Highlights recent advances in the practical application of spoken dialogue systems This comprehensive overview is a must for graduate students and academics in the fields of speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech processing, language, and human–computer interaction technolgy. It will also prove to be a valuable resource to system developers working in these areas.

Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems

Author : Oliver Lemon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461448034
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Book Synopsis Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems by : Oliver Lemon

Download or read book Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Oliver Lemon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data driven methods have long been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis and have more recently been introduced for dialogue management, spoken language understanding, and Natural Language Generation. Machine learning is now present “end-to-end” in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS). However, these techniques require data collection and annotation campaigns, which can be time-consuming and expensive, as well as dataset expansion by simulation. In this book, we provide an overview of the current state of the field and of recent advances, with a specific focus on adaptivity.

Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models

Author : Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642315917
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models by : Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht

Download or read book Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models written by Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken dialog systems have the potential to offer highly intuitive user interfaces, as they allow systems to be controlled using natural language. However, the complexity inherent in natural language dialogs means that careful testing of the system must be carried out from the very beginning of the design process. This book examines how user models can be used to support such early evaluations in two ways: by running simulations of dialogs, and by estimating the quality judgments of users. First, a design environment supporting the creation of dialog flows, the simulation of dialogs, and the analysis of the simulated data is proposed. How the quality of user simulations may be quantified with respect to their suitability for both formative and summative evaluation is then discussed. The remainder of the book is dedicated to the problem of predicting quality judgments of users based on interaction data. New modeling approaches are presented, which process the dialogs as sequences, and which allow knowledge about the judgment behavior of users to be incorporated into predictions. All proposed methods are validated with example evaluation studies.