Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Where Do We Go from Here?

   • Roberto Pieraccini, Juan M. Huerta

   Pages 1-24

3. Designing Speech-Controlled Media File Selection for Automotive Systems

   • Yu-Fang H. Wang, Stefan W. Hamerich

   Pages 25-43

4. A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction

   • David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella

   Pages 45-67

5. Evaluating Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Telephone Services

   • Sebastian Möller

   Pages 69-100

6. Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother?

   • Michael McTear

   Pages 101-122

7. Sorry, I Didn’t Catch That!

   • Dan Bohus, Alexander I. Rudnicky

   Pages 123-154

8. Galatea: A Discourse Modeller Supporting Concept-Level Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems

   • Gabriel Skantze

   Pages 155-189

9. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management

   • Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart, Steve Young

   Pages 191-217

10. Does This Answer Your Question?

    • Matthias Denecke, Norihito Yasuda

    Pages 219-246

11. Meeting Structure Annotation

    • Alexander Gruenstein, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver

    Pages 247-274

12. Analyzing Dependencies Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus

    • Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman

    Pages 275-304

13. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312

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This book edition highlights recent trends and important issues that still remain only partially solved or even unsolved within the broad ?eld of discourse and dialogue. The ?eld is discussed and illustrated both from an overall spoken (multimodal) dialogue system perspective as well as from a more compone- related perspective. Issues discussed include, for example, discourse and dialogue modelling in research versus industrial spoken dialogue systems, evaluation, miscommunication and error handling, grounding, statistical and corpus-based approaches to discourse and dialogue modelling, data analysis, and corpus annotation and annotation tools. We believe that jointly this collection of chapters provides a good picture of how far we are today within discourse and dialogue and of important ch- lenges ahead. On this background we hope that computer scientists, engineers, and others who work in the broad area of discourse and dialogue, no matter if from an academic or industrial perspective, may bene?t from the book and ?nd it useful to their own work. Graduate students and Ph.D. students focusing on topics in discourse and dialogue may also ?nd the book interesting and pro?t from reading it. This book edition is based on a selected subset of papers from the successful 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2005 in conjunction with the 9th Eurospeech (Interspeech) conf- ence. SIGdial is a special interest group on discourse and dialogue sponsored jointly by the two parent organisations ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association).

• communication
• corpora
• corpus
• error
• evaluation
• handling
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• interaction
• modeling
• spoken
• tools

From the reviews:

"Recent trends in discourse and dialogue is essential for research libraries in companies or teaching institutions concerned with voice interaction design or with multimodal interaction design … . The collection is an up-to-the-moment survey of the field by leading international researchers … . The book is full of examples, data, and practical advice. … Recent trends in discourse and dialogue is a significant contribution to the voice-interaction literature … ." (Randy Harris, Technical Communication, Vol. 55 (4), November, 2008)

• Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Brøndby, Denmark

  Laila Dybkjær

• Institute of Information Technology, University of Ulm, Germany

  Wolfgang Minker

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