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Text, Speech, and Language Technology #22: Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

by Jan Van Kuppevelt

Text, Speech, and Language Technology #22: Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure. In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue.

Book News Annotation:

Of the 29 presentations at the workshop, extended versions of 12 are published here, along with four other invited papers on major issues in discourse and dialogue research. The main themes discussed are corpus annotation and analysis; methodologies for constructing dialogue systems; and perspectives on various key theoretical issues, including communicative intention, context-based generation, and modeling discourse structure. Among the topics are using direct variant transduction for the rapid development of natural spoken interfaces, building a discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of rhetorical structure theory, and disentangling public from non-public meaning. There is no index.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus.- Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural Spoken Interfaces.- An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity.- Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving.- Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory.- An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human Computer Dialogue.- Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues.- Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue.- Disentangling Public from non-public Meaning.- Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System.- On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue.- Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing.- Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory.- Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure.- The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management.- Visualizing Spoken Discourse.- References.- Appendix.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781402016141
Editor:
Van Kuppevelt, Jan
Editor:
Smith, Ronnie W.
Editor:
Van Kuppevelt, Jan
Editor:
Smith, Ronnie W.
Editor:
Van Kuppevelt, J. C. J.
Author:
J.C.J Van Kuppevelt
Author:
Van Kuppevelt, J. C. J.
Author:
Smith, R. W.
Author:
Kuppevelt, Jan Van
Editor:
Van Kuppevelt, J. C. J.
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Subject:
Linguistics
Subject:
Discourse analysis
Subject:
Dialogue analysis
Subject:
Discourse analysis -- Data processing.
Subject:
Dialogue analysis - Data processing
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
1
Series:
Text, Speech, and Language Technology
Series Volume:
22
Publication Date:
January 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
9.21x6.14x.94 in. 1.62 lbs.
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