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Machine Conversations

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Yorick Wilks

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 511)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Dialogue Programs I have Known and Loved Over 33 Years

    • K. M. Colby
    Pages 1-3

  3. Comments on Human-Computer Conversation

    • K. M. Colby
    Pages 5-8

  4. Human-Computer Conversation in A Cognitive Therapy Program

    • K. M. Colby
    Pages 9-19

  5. Architectural Considerations for Conversational Systems

    • G. Görz, J. Spilker, V. Strom, H. Weber
    Pages 21-34

  6. Conversational Multimedia Interaction

    • M. T. Maybury
    Pages 35-45

  7. The SpeakEasy Dialogue Controller

    • G. Ball
    Pages 47-56

  8. Choosing a Response Using Problem Solving Plans and Rhetorical Relations

    • P. Barboni, D. Sestero
    Pages 57-76

  9. Deception and Suspicion in Medical Interactions

    • C. Castelfranchi, F. de Rosis, F. Grasso
    Pages 77-98

  10. Parsing Utterances Including Self-Repairs

    • M. Nakano, A. Shimazu
    Pages 99-112

  11. A Synthetic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems

    • K. Hasida, Y. Den
    Pages 113-125

  12. Designing for Naturalness in Automated Dialogues

    • C. Cheepen, J. Monaghan
    Pages 127-142

  13. Turn Taking versus Discourse Structure

    • J. Cassell, O. E. Torres, S. Prevost
    Pages 143-153

  14. The BABY Project

    • P. A. P. Rogers, M. Lefley
    Pages 155-167

  15. A Responsive Dialog System

    • N. Ward, W. Tsukahara
    Pages 169-174

  16. Situated Communication with Robots

    • J.-T. Milde, K. Peters, S. Strippgen
    Pages 175-186

  17. LEAP: Language Enabled Applications

    • B. Alabiso, A. Kronfeld
    Pages 187-204

  18. CONVERSE: a Conversational Companion

    • B. Batacharia, D. Levy, R. Catizone, A. Krotov, Y. Wilks
    Pages 205-215

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 217-221
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About this book

Machine Conversationsis a collection of some of the best research available in the practical arts of machine conversation. The book describes various attempts to create practical and flexible machine conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted version of English or some other language. While this book employs and advances the theory of dialogue and its linguistic underpinnings, the emphasis is on practice, both in university research laboratories and in company research and development. Since the focus is on the task and on the performance, this book provides some of the first-rate work taking place in industry, quite apart from the academic tradition. It also reveals striking and relevant facts about the tone of machine conversations and closely evaluates what users require.
Machine Conversations is an excellent reference for researchers interested in computational linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces and machine learning.

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  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Yorick Wilks

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