Speech and Human-Machine Dialog

Minker W.1402080379

Book DescriptionSpeech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis.Due to the conjunction of several factors throughout the pastfew years, humans are significantly changing their behavior vis-à-vis machines. In particular, the use of speech technologies will become normal in the professional domain, and in everyday life. The performance of speech recognition components has also significantly improved. This book includes various examples that illustrate the different functionalities of the dialog model in a representative application for train travel information retrieval (train time tables, prices and ticket reservation).Speech and Human-Machine Dialog is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.

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Table of contents :
Speech And Human-machine Dialog……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
1. INTRODUCTION……Page 12
1 Language……Page 13
2 Dialog and Computer……Page 14
3 Human-Machine Spoken Language Dialog……Page 15
5 Projects and Research Applications……Page 21
1 Introduction……Page 24
2 Case Grammar Formalism……Page 25
3 Case Grammar in the LIMSI-L’ATIS System……Page 26
4 Conclusion……Page 32
2 Task Modeling……Page 34
3 Human-Machine Spoken Language Dialog Modeling……Page 40
4 Dialog System Example……Page 84
5 Conclusion……Page 90
4. CONCLUSION……Page 92
References……Page 96
Index……Page 102