Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue - Text, Speech and Language Technology 2008 edition

Marc Notes: Selected papers from the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in Sept. 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: 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) Review Quotes: 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) Table of Contents: Preface.- Contributing Authors.- Trends and Challenges in Discourse and Dialogue by Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker.- Chapter 1 Where Do We Go From Here? By Roberto Pieraccini and Juan M. Huerta.- Chapter 2 Designing Speech-controlled Media File Selection for Automotive Systems by Yu-Fang H. Wang and Stefan W. Hamerich.- Chapter 3 A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction by David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella.- Chapter 4 Evaluating Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Telephone Services by Sebastian Moller.- Chapter 5 Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother? By Michael McTear.- Chapter 6 Sorry I Didn t Catch That! By Dan Bohus and Alexander I. Rudnicky.- Chapter 7 GALATEA: A Discourse Modeller Supporting Concept-Level Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems by Gabriel Skantze.- Chapter 8 Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management by Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart and Steve Young.- Chapter 9 Does This Answer Your Question? By Matthias Denecke and Norihito Yasuda.- Chapter 10 Meeting Structure Annotation by Alexander Gruenstein, John Niekrasz and Matthew Purver.- Chapter 11 Analyzing Dependencies between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus by Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman.- Abbreviations.- Index."Review Quotes: 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)"Publisher Marketing: This book is a collection of eleven chapters which together represent an original contribution to the field of (multimodal) spoken dialogue systems. The chapters include highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems, evaluation, miscommunication and error handling, grounding, statistical and corpus-based approaches to discourse and dialogue modeling, data analysis, and corpus annotation and annotation tools. The book contains several detailed application studies, including, e.g., speech-controlled MP3 players in a car environment, negotiation training with a virtual human in a military context, application of spoken dialogue to question-answering systems, and cognitive aspects in tutoring systems. The chapters vary considerably with respect to the level of expertise required in advance to benefit from them. However, most chapters start with a state-of-the-art description from which all readers from the spoken dialogue community may benefit. Overview chapters and state-of-the-art descriptions may also be of interest to people from the human-computer interaction community.

Contributor Bio:  Dybkjaer, Laila Dybkjaer-Center for Cognitive Science, Roskilde Unverisity, Denmark