Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems: A Practical Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195091878)

As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user model usage, expectation usage for contextual interpretation and error correction, and variable initiative behavior for interacting with users of differing expertise. The book also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, and provides instructions and in-depth result from pertinent experiments. Researchers and professionals in natural language systems will find this important new book an invaluable addition to their libraries.

Author: Ronnie W. Smith
ISBN-10: 0195091876
ISBN-13: 9780195091878
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/1995
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d