Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments

This book describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. It presents novel methods for dialogue history and dialogue management.

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.

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

Inhalt
Fundamentals.- Multi-Party Dialogue Corpus.- Dialogue Management for a Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue System.- Evaluation.- Conclusions and Future Directions.