Machine Conversations

✍ Scribed by K. M. Colby (auth.), Yorick Wilks (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 511
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Machine Conversationsis a collection of some of the best research available in the practical arts of machine conversation. The book describes various attempts to create practical and flexible machine conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted version of English or some other language. While this book employs and advances the theory of dialogue and its linguistic underpinnings, the emphasis is on practice, both in university research laboratories and in company research and development. Since the focus is on the task and on the performance, this book provides some of the first-rate work taking place in industry, quite apart from the academic tradition. It also reveals striking and relevant facts about the tone of machine conversations and closely evaluates what users require.
Machine Conversations is an excellent reference for researchers interested in computational linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces and machine learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Dialogue Programs I have Known and Loved Over 33 Years....Pages 1-3
Comments on Human-Computer Conversation....Pages 5-8
Human-Computer Conversation in A Cognitive Therapy Program....Pages 9-19
Architectural Considerations for Conversational Systems....Pages 21-34
Conversational Multimedia Interaction....Pages 35-45
The SpeakEasy Dialogue Controller....Pages 47-56
Choosing a Response Using Problem Solving Plans and Rhetorical Relations....Pages 57-76
Deception and Suspicion in Medical Interactions....Pages 77-98
Parsing Utterances Including Self-Repairs....Pages 99-112
A Synthetic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems....Pages 113-125
Designing for Naturalness in Automated Dialogues....Pages 127-142
Turn Taking versus Discourse Structure....Pages 143-153
The BABY Project....Pages 155-167
A Responsive Dialog System....Pages 169-174
Situated Communication with Robots....Pages 175-186
LEAP: Language Enabled Applications....Pages 187-204
CONVERSE: a Conversational Companion....Pages 205-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-221

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction