Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments

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Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex Intelligent Environment (IE) consisting of various devices, services, and task descriptions. The theoretical foundation of a working ontology-based spoken dialogue description framework, the prototype implementation of the ASDM, and the evaluation activities that are presented as part of this book contribute to the ongoing spoken dialogue research by establishing the fertile ground of model-based adaptive spoken dialogue management. This monograph is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, and postdocs as well as academic and industrial researchers and developers in speech and multimodal interactive systems. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction....Pages 1-9 Background....Pages 11-32 Novel Approach to Spoken Dialogue Management in Intelligent Environments....Pages 33-64 The OwlSpeak Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager....Pages 65-111 Experiments and Evaluation....Pages 113-170 Conclusion and Future Directions....Pages 171-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-211