Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments

✍ Scribed by Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 181
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and multi-party capabilities pose new challenges on the dialogue management component of such a system and require the use and administration of an extensive dialogue history. In order to assist the proactive spoken dialogue systems development, a comprehensive data collection seems mandatory and may be performed in a Wizard-of-Oz environment. Such an environment builds also the appropriate basis for an extensive usability and acceptance evaluation.

Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments is a useful reference for students and researchers in speech processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Fundamentals....Pages 17-49
Multi-Party Dialogue Corpus....Pages 51-72
Dialogue Management for a Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue System....Pages 73-114
Evaluation....Pages 115-139
Conclusions and Future Directions....Pages 141-149
Back Matter....Pages 151-175

✦ Subjects

Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Language Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction