Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

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 industri

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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 39

Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York, USA Jean Véronis, Université de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France

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Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue Edited by

Laila Dybkjær Natural Interactive Systems Laborator y BrØ ndby Denmark

Wolfgang Minker Institute of Information Technology University of Ulm Germany

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008920669

ISBN 978-1-4020-6820-1 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6821-8 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

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Contents

Preface

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Contributing Authors

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Trends and Challenges in Discourse and Dialogue Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker 1. Trends and Challenges 2. Overview of the Individual Chapters 3. Readership 1 Where Do We Go From Here? Roberto Pieraccini and Juan M. Huerta 1. Introduction: Overview of Dialogue Systems 2. VUI Completeness 3. Dialogue Management 4. Reference Architectures: Research and Commercial 5. Programmatic Dialogue Management 6. Finite State Control Management 7. Inference-Based Dialogue Managers 8. Current Industrial Trends 9. Conclusions References 2 Designing Speech-Controlled Media File Selection for Automotive Systems Yu-Fang H. Wang and Stefan W. Hamerich 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Speech Dialogue Systems for Cars 4. Automotive Dialogue Design 5. Overall System Description 6. MP3 Dialogue Design 7. Some Notes on MP3 Tags 8. Conclusion and Future Work References

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RECENT TRENDS IN DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE

3 A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella 1. Introduction 2. Dialogue Model 3. Dialogue Processing 4. Non-Team Negotiation 5. Example Interactions 6. Preliminary Evaluation and Future Directions References 4 Evaluating Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Telephone Services Sebastian M¨ oller 1. Introduction 2. Subjective Evaluation of Dialogue Services 3. Multidimensional Ana