Conversational interfaces have recently become ubiquitous in the personal sphere by
improving an individual's quality of life and industrial environments by automating services …

Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) are critical in facilitating natural and efficient human-
machine interaction through speech. SDSs frequently encounter challenges in managing …

Speech technology is maturing rapidly and attention is switching to the problems of using
this technology in real applications, especially applications which allow a human to use …

Spoken dialog researchers have recently demonstrated highly-interactive systems in several
domains. This paper considers how to build on these advances to make systems more …

Because dialogue system development involves a variety of factors and requires
multifaceted consideration, design guidelines for such development would be helpful …

Since approximately the mid 1980's, technology has been adequate (if not ideal) for
researchers to construct spoken natural language dialog systems (SNLDS) in order to test …

Conversational interfaces have recently become an ubiquitous element in both the personal
sphere by improving individual's quality of life, and industrial environments by the …

In this paper, we report the significant results of a fully-implemented voice operated dialogue
system, and particularly its main component: the Dialogue Manager (DM). Just like for other …

Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems,
ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed …

Spoken language understanding (SLU) involves taking the output of the speech recognition
component and producing a representation of its meaning that can be used by the dialog …