Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems: Development and Assessment

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John Wiley & Sons, 11 ene 2007 - 272 páginas
Dialogue systems are a very appealing technology with an extraordinary future. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogues Systems: Development and Assessment addresses the great demand for information about the development of advanced dialogue systems combining speech with other modalities under a multilingual framework. It aims to give a systematic overview of dialogue systems and recent advances in the practical application of spoken dialogue systems.

Spoken Dialogue Systems are computer-based systems developed to provide information and carry out simple tasks using speech as the interaction mode. Examples include travel information and reservation, weather forecast information, directory information and product order. Multimodal Dialogue Systems aim to overcome the limitations of spoken dialogue systems which use speech as the only communication means, while Multilingual Systems allow interaction with users that speak different languages.

  • Presents a clear snapshot of the structure of a standard dialogue system, by addressing its key components in the context of multilingual and multimodal interaction and the assessment of spoken, multilingual and multimodal systems
  • In addition to the fundamentals of the technologies employed, the development and evaluation of these systems are described
  • Highlights recent advances in the practical application of spoken dialogue systems

This comprehensive overview is a must for graduate students and academics in the fields of speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech processing, language, and human–computer interaction technolgy. It will also prove to be a valuable resource to system developers working in these areas.

 

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1 Introduction to Dialogue Systems
1
2 Technologies Employed to Set Up Dialogue Systems
16
3 Multimodal Dialogue Systems
54
34 Further Reading
85
4 Multilingual Dialogue Systems
86
5 Dialogue Annotation Modelling and Management
118
52 Dialogue Modelling
124
53 Dialogue Management
127
58 Further Reading
150
6 Development Tools
151
7 Assessment
189
Appendix A Basic Tutorial on VoiceXML
219
Appendix B Multimodal Databases
229
Appendix C Coding Schemes for Multimodal Resources
233
Appendix D URLs of Interest
235
Appendix E List of Abbreviations
237

54 Implications of Multimodality in the Dialogue Management
131
55 Implications of Multilinguality in the Dialogue Management
141
56 Implications of Task Independency in the Dialogue Management
144
57 Summary
149
References
239
Index
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Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems: Development and Assessment
Ramon Lopez Cozar Delgado,Masahiro Araki
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acoustic allows analysis animated agent annotation application approach architecture audio behaviour called carried CCXML combination communication component confidence scores confirmation strategy considered corpus CSLU Toolkit data fusion database defined developed devices dialogue manager dialogue systems discussed domain DTMF element emotional etal evaluation example face facial expressions fusion module gesture recognition grammar graphic handwriting recognition HMMs human implemented information chunks input modalities interaction modalities interface interlingua language model language-dependent Markup Language methods MLDSs MMDSs Multilingual multimodal data Multimodal Dialogue Systems multimodal interaction N-gram natural language objects obtained output parameters phoneme problem processing prompt represent requires response screen SDSs Section semantic frame semantic representation sentence sequence shown in Figure slots specific speech recognition speech synthesis spoken SSML syntactic tags task class task-dependent techniques technologies toolkit types typically user’s utterances variables vocabulary voice Voice Browser VoiceXML vxml words

Sobre el autor (2007)

Ramón López-Cózar Delgado is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Computer Systems, Computer Science Faculty, Granada University, Spain. He has published over 30 papers in international journals and conferences concerned with dialogue systems. He is member of the COST Action 278 “Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunications”

Masahiro Araki is an Associate Professor at Department of Electronics and Information Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology. His current interests are spoken dialogue processing and artificial intelligence. He is a member of ACL and ISCA.

João P. Neto is Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon in signal theory, discrete signal processing, control systems and neural networks. His research interests focus on spoken, multimodal and multilingual dialogue systems, speech recognition and understanding, dialogue management and speech synthesis.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloSpoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems: Development and Assessment
AutoresRamon Lopez Cozar Delgado, Masahiro Araki
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2007
ISBN047002156X, 9780470021569
N.º de páginas272 páginas
  
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