Constructive Dialogue Modelling (eBook)

Dialogue management technology has developed rapidly over the years
resulting in real-time applications like telephony directories,
timetable enquiries, and in-car applications. However, the current
technology is still largely based on models that use rigid command
language type interactions, and the users need to adapt their human
communication strategies to the needs of the technology. As an
increasing number of interactive ubiquitous applications will
appear, challenges for interaction technology concern especially
natural, more human-friendly communication. Recent research has
focused on developing speech-based interactive systems that aim to
increase the system's communicative competence. By including
aspects of interaction beyond simple speech recognition and
question-answer based interaction, applications with more
conversational interfaces have become possible. New dialogue
management technology needs to address the challenges in
human-technology interaction, so that smart environments should not
only enable user-controlled command interfaces but equip
applications with a capability that affords easy and friendly
interactions with the user.

Dialogue Modelling: Speech Interaction and Rational
Agents provides an overview of the current dialogue technology
and research trends in spoken dialogue systems, presenting a
coherent perspective of AI-based cooperative interaction
management. The book complements existing research regarding
human-computer interfaces, speech and language technology, and
communication studies in general, bringing different view-points
together and integrating them into a single point of reference.

Constructive Dialogue Modelling:

* Presents a guide to spoken dialogue technology and current
research trends.

* Provides an overview of human factors in dialogue systems and
delivers a new metaphor for human-computer interaction and computer
as agent.

* Explains the architecture of dialogue systems using examples
from systems such as Interact and DUMAS

* Offers a comprehensive overview of original research into the
new trends in speech dialogue technology in light of innovations
such as ubiquitous computing.

This book will provide essential reading for industrial
designers and interface engineers, university researchers and
teachers, computer scientists, human communication researchers,
speech and language technologists, cognitive engineers/cognitive
scientists, as well as social and media researchers, and
psychologists. Advanced students and researchers in computer
science, speech and language technologies, psychology and
communication research will find this text of interest.