Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; Dialog for robot interaction; Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation);

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These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.