Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems [electronic resource] /
Bühler, Dirk.author.
Minker, Wolfgang.author.
Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems provides a logic‐based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. This component, called the Problem Assistant is responsible for processing constraints on a possible solution obtained from various sources, namely user and the system's domain-specific information. The authors present findings on the implementation of a dialogue management interface to the Problem Assistant. The dialogue system supports simple mixed‐initiative planning interactions in the TRAINS domain, which is still a relatively complex domain involving a number of logical constraints and relations forming the basis for the collaborative problem-solving behavior that drives the dialogue. The book also: Presents novel methods for enabling spoken dialogue systems to construct and manage complex tasks and interdependencies with different applications Describes late-breaking research on next-generation spoken dialogue systems Investigates how spoken dialogue systems may be improved in terms of usability and user friendliness  .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: Introduction -- 2: Fundamentals of Dialogue Systems -- 3: First‐Order Logic -- 4: Logic‐Based Domain Modelling -- 5: Interactive Model Generation -- 6: A Prototype Based on VoiceXML -- 7: Information State‐Based Dialogue Management -- 8: Revised Prototype and System Architecture -- 9: Conclusions and Future Directions.
Domain-Level Reasoning for Spoken Dialogue Systems provides a logic‐based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. This component, called the Problem Assistant is responsible for processing constraints on a possible solution obtained from various sources, namely user and the system's domain-specific information. The authors present findings on the implementation of a dialogue management interface to the Problem Assistant. The dialogue system supports simple mixed‐initiative planning interactions in the TRAINS domain, which is still a relatively complex domain involving a number of logical constraints and relations forming the basis for the collaborative problem-solving behavior that drives the dialogue. The book also: Presents novel methods for enabling spoken dialogue systems to construct and manage complex tasks and interdependencies with different applications Describes late-breaking research on next-generation spoken dialogue systems Investigates how spoken dialogue systems may be improved in terms of usability and user friendliness  .
Computational intelligence.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
User interfaces (Computer systems).
Natural language processing (Computer science).
Computational Intelligence.
Signal, Image and Speech Processing.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Natural Language Processing (NLP).