Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments
outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken
dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based
Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have
identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of
the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex Intelligent Environment (IE)
consisting of various devices, services, and task descriptions.
The theoretical foundation of a working ontology-based spoken dialogue
description framework, the prototype implementation of the ASDM, and the
evaluation activities that are presented as part of this book contribute
to the ongoing spoken dialogue research by establishing the fertile
ground of model-based adaptive spoken dialogue management.
This monograph is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, PhD
students, and postdocs as well as academic and industrial researchers
and developers in speech and multimodal interactive systems.