Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments: Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, IWSDS 2010, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, October 1-2, 2010. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Mohammad A. M. Abushariah, Raja N. Ainon, Roziati Zainuddin, Bassam A. Al-Qatab (auth.), Gary Geunbae Lee, Joseph Mariani, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6392 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Impact of a Newly Developed Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpus on Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition Systems....Pages 1-12
User and Noise Adaptive Dialogue Management Using Hybrid System Actions....Pages 13-24
Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System....Pages 25-35
Evaluation of Two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition....Pages 36-47
Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models....Pages 48-60
Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses....Pages 61-72
Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System....Pages 73-84
D3 Toolkit: A Development Toolkit for Daydreaming Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 85-95
New Technique to Enhance the Performance of Spoken Dialogue Systems by Means of Implicit Recovery of ASR Errors....Pages 96-109
Simulation of the Grounding Process in Spoken Dialog Systems with Bayesian Networks....Pages 110-121
Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems....Pages 122-131
A Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Industrial Dissemination....Pages 132-143
Impact of Semantic Web on the Development of Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 144-149
A User Model to Predict User Satisfaction with Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 150-155
Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach....Pages 156-162
Rational Communication and Affordable Natural Language Interaction for Ambient Environments....Pages 163-168
Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System....Pages 169-175
A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria....Pages 176-181
A Classifier-Based Approach to Supporting the Augmentation of the Question-Answer Database for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 182-187
The Influence of the Usage Mode on Subjectively Perceived Quality....Pages 188-193
Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager....Pages 194-195
Spoken Dialogue System Based on Information Extraction from Web Text....Pages 196-197
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Computer Vision