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Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments

  • Presents novel methods for dialogue history and dialogue management
  • Investigates how spoken language dialogue systems may be improved in terms of usability and user friendliness
  • Demonstrates how conventional spoken language dialogue systems may become technical companions
  • Describes exhaustive user tests to evaluate the presented approaches
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 1-15
  3. Fundamentals

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 17-49
  4. Multi-Party Dialogue Corpus

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 51-72
  5. Dialogue Management for a Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue System

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 73-114
  6. Evaluation

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 115-139
  7. Conclusions and Future Directions

    • Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 141-149
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 151-175

About this book

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.

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“This work contains the results that were obtained for a novel type of spoken-language dialogue system. … The main goal of the research project described in the book was to develop a dialogue system that appears as an independent dialogue partner in the interaction with two persons. … The book is excellent from a didactical point of view, too. It is recommended to researchers, teachers and students.” (E. Kostolansky, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1206, 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Information Technology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker

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