Man-Machine Dialogue: Design and Challenges

Front Cover
John Wiley & Sons, Jul 1, 2013 - Technology & Engineering - 240 pages
0 Reviews

This book summarizes the main problems posed by the design of a man–machine dialogue system and offers ideas on how to continue along the path towards efficient, realistic and fluid communication between humans and machines.
A culmination of ten years of research, it is based on the author’s development, investigation and experimentation covering a multitude of fields, including artificial intelligence, automated language processing, man–machine interfaces and notably multimodal or multimedia interfaces.

Contents

Part 1. Historical and Methodological Landmarks
1. An Assessment of the Evolution of Research and Systems.
2. Man–Machine Dialogue Fields.
3. The Development Stages of a Dialogue System.
4. Reusable System Architectures.
Part 2. Inputs Processing
5. Semantic Analyses and Representations.
6. Reference Resolution.
7. Dialogue Acts Recognition.
Part 3. System Behavior and Evaluation
8. A Few Dialogue Strategies.
9. Multimodal Output Management.
10. Multimodal Dialogue System Assessment.

About the Authors

Frédéric Landragin is a computer science engineer and has a PhD from the University of Lorraine, France. He is currently in charge of linguistics research for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His studies focus on the analysis and modeling of language interpretation. Man–machine dialogue is one of the applications of this research.

 

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Selected pages

Contents

Preface
An Assessment of the Evolution
ManMachine Dialogue Fields
The Development Stages of a Dialogue
Reusable System Architectures
Semantic Analyses and Representations
Reference Resolution
Dialogue Acts Recognition
A Few Dialogue Strategies
Multimodal Output Management
Multimodal Dialogue System Assessment
Conclusion
Index
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Man-Machine Dialogue: Design and Challenges
Frederic Landragin
No preview available - 2013
Man-Machine Dialogue: Design and Challenges
Frederic Landragin
No preview available - 2013

Common terms and phrases

abilities allows the system anaphora answer approach architecture aspects assessment behavior carried challenges Chapter cognitive sciences communication Computational Linguistics constraints coreference corpus detection dialogue acts dialogue history dialogue management dialogue system example field focus goal Gricean maxims hearer helshe his/her human dialogue identify implemented input interaction interpretation involved issues itinerary lexical linguistic linked machine learning man—machine dialogue matching middleware MMD system modalities module multimedia multimodal dialogue multimodal fusion multimodal systems natural dialogue natural language objects oral dialogue parameters phenomena pointing gesture possible pragmatic present prosodic query question reference domain reference resolution referring expression relevant semantic content sentence SHRDLU software architecture specific speech acts speech recognition structure syntactic analysis system’s taking into account task text to speech thematic roles ticket for Paris Turing test user’s utterance utterance’s visual Wizard of Oz words

About the author (2013)

Frédéric Landdragin is a computer science engineer and has a PhD from the University of Lorraine, France. He is currently in charge of linguistics research for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His studies focus on the analysis and modeling of language interpretation. Man-machine dialogue is one of the applications of this research.

Bibliographic information

QR code for Man-Machine Dialogue
TitleMan-Machine Dialogue: Design and Challenges
FOCUS Series
AuthorFrederic Landragin
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN1118578775, 9781118578773
Length240 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Technology & Engineering / Electrical
Technology & Engineering / Electronics / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan