5,524,169 A* 6/1996 5,819,220 A* 10/1998 5,905,773 A* 5/1999 6,184,823 B1* 2/2001
6,487.495 B1* 11/2002 6,745,165 B2* 6/2004 6,757,544 B2* 6/2004 6,813,342 B1 1 1/2004 …

We introduce the information state approach to dialogue management, and show how it can
be used to formalize theories of dialogue in a manner suitable for easy implementation. We …

Voice-activated intelligent assistants, such as Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, are prevalent
on mobile devices. However, it is challenging to evaluate them due to the varied and …

As technology expands and evolves, one-dimensional, graphical user interface (GUI) design
becomes increasingly limiting and simplistic. Designers must meet the challenge of …

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

This report is about the state of the art in dialogue management. We first introduce an
overview of a multimodal dialogue system and its components. Second, four main …

Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a developing technology that will increasingly make our
everyday environment sensitive and responsive to our presence. The AI vision requires …

This article is intended to serve as an introduction to the field of statistical SLU, based on the
mainstream statistical modeling approach that shares a similar mathematical framework with …

A challenging problem for spoken dialog systems is the design of utterance generation
modules that are fast, flexible and general, yet produce high quality output in particular …

Spoken dialogue systems have been studied for years, yet portability is still one of the
biggest challenges in terms of language extensibility, domain scalability, and platform …