Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Download or read book Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue written by Laila Dybkjær and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven chapters of this book represent an original contribution to the field of multimodal spoken dialogue systems. The material includes highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems. The book contains detailed application studies, including speech-controlled MP3 players in a car environment, negotiation training with a virtual human in a military context and the application of spoken dialogue to question-answering systems.