Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction

✍ Scribed by Alexander Rudnicky, Antoine Raux, Ian Lane, Teruhisa Misu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems for applications in everyday settings. It includes contributions on key topics in situated dialog interaction from a number of leading researchers and offers a broad spectrum of perspectives on research and development in the area.

In particular, it presents applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication and covers the following topics: dialog for interacting with robots; language understanding and generation; dialog architectures and modeling; core technologies; and the analysis of human discourse and interaction.

The contributions are adapted and expanded contributions from the 2014 International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2014), where researchers and developers from industry and academia alike met to discuss and compare their implementation experiences, analyses and empirical findings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evaluation of Statistical POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems in Noisy Environments....Pages 3-14
Syntactic Filtering and Content-Based Retrieval of Twitter Sentences for the Generation of System Utterances in Dialogue Systems....Pages 15-26
Knowledge-Guided Interpretation and Generation of Task-Oriented Dialogue....Pages 27-39
Justification and Transparency Explanations in Dialogue Systems to Maintain Human-Computer Trust....Pages 41-50
Dialogue Management for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue....Pages 51-61
Chat-Like Conversational System Based on Selection of Reply Generating Module with Reinforcement Learning....Pages 63-69
Investigating Critical Speech Recognition Errors in Spoken Short Messages....Pages 71-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The HRI-CMU Corpus of Situated In-Car Interactions....Pages 85-95
Detecting ‘Request Alternatives’ User Dialog Acts from Dialog Context....Pages 97-102
Emotion and Its Triggers in Human Spoken Dialogue: Recognition and Analysis....Pages 103-110
Evaluation of In-Car SDS Notification Concepts for Incoming Proactive Events....Pages 111-124
Construction and Analysis of a Persuasive Dialogue Corpus....Pages 125-138
Evaluating Model that Predicts When People Will Speak to a Humanoid Robot and Handling Variations of Individuals and Instructions....Pages 139-150
Entrainment in Pedestrian Direction Giving: How Many Kinds of Entrainment?....Pages 151-164
Situated Interaction in a Multilingual Spoken Information Access Framework....Pages 165-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
A Turbo-Decoding Weighted Forward-Backward Algorithm for Multimodal Speech Recognition....Pages 179-192
Engine-Independent ASR Error Management for Dialog Systems....Pages 193-203
Restoring Incorrectly Segmented Keywords and Turn-Taking Caused by Short Pauses....Pages 205-216
A Semi-automated Evaluation Metric for Dialogue Model Coherence....Pages 217-225

✦ Subjects

Signal, Image and Speech Processing; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recognition; Computational Linguistics