The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices

✍ Scribed by Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 431
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the conversational interface, which is becoming the main mode of interaction with virtual personal assistants, smart devices, various types of wearable, and social robots. The book consists of four parts. Part I presents the background to conversational interfaces, examining past and present work on spoken language interaction with computers. Part II covers the various technologies that are required to build a conversational interface along with practical chapters and exercises using open source tools. Part III looks at interactions with smart devices, wearables, and robots, and discusses the role of emotion and personality in the conversational interface. Part IV examines methods for evaluating conversational interfaces and discusses future directions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introducing the Conversational Interface....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Dawn of the Conversational Interface....Pages 11-24
Toward a Technology of Conversation....Pages 25-50
Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present....Pages 51-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Speech Input and Output....Pages 75-92
Implementing Speech Input and Output....Pages 93-123
Creating a Conversational Interface Using Chatbot Technology....Pages 125-159
Spoken Language Understanding....Pages 161-185
Implementing Spoken Language Understanding....Pages 187-208
Dialog Management....Pages 209-233
Implementing Dialog Management....Pages 235-263
Response Generation....Pages 265-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Conversational Interfaces: Devices, Wearables, Virtual Agents, and Robots....Pages 283-308
Emotion, Affect, and Personality....Pages 309-327
Affective Conversational Interfaces....Pages 329-357
Implementing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Using Android Wear....Pages 359-376
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Evaluating the Conversational Interface....Pages 379-402
Future Directions....Pages 403-418
Back Matter....Pages 419-422

✦ Subjects

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

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