Recently, data-driven speech technologies have been widely used to build speech user
interfaces. However, developing and managing data-driven spoken dialog systems are …

Spoken dialogue technology has developed considerably over the past thirty years both in
terms of research activity as well as in terms of commercially deployed applications. This …

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in speech and language
understanding research, with a particular focus on the development of conversational dialog …

Human-machine conversational agents have developed at a rapid pace in recent years,
bolstered through the application of advanced technologies such as deep learning. Today …

Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design covers key topics in the field of spoken
language dialogue interaction from a variety of leading researchers. It brings together …

In the early 1990s, the performance of speech and language processing technology
combined with advanced voice user interface (VUI) design procedures allowed to start …

Towards More Natural Dialogues: Integrating Open-Domain Dialogue Skills into Task-Oriented
Agents Page 1 Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Young Reseachers’ Roundtable on …

We introduce Olympus, a freely available framework for research in conversational
interfaces. Olympus' open, transparent, flexible, modular and scalable nature facilitates the …

The spoken dialogue industry has reached a maturity characterised by a vertical structure of
technology vendors, platform integrators, application developers, and hosting companies. At …

The International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) series provides an
international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively …