Overview

The papers in this collection describe various attempts to create practical and flexible machine conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted version of English or some other language. While this book employs and advances the theory of dialogue and its linguistic underpinnings, the emphasis is on practice, both in university research laboratories and in company research and development. Since the focus is on the task and on the performance, this book provides some of the work taking place in industry, quite apart from the academic tradition. It also reveals striking and relevant facts about the tone of machine conversations and closely evaluates what users require.

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Author:   Yorick Wilks
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   511
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.120kg
ISBN:  

9780792385448

ISBN 10:   0792385446
Pages:   221
Publication Date:   31 July 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Dialogue Programs I have Known and Loved Over 33 Years.- 2 Comments on Human-Computer Conversation.- 3 Human-Computer Conversation in A Cognitive Therapy Program.- 4 Architectural Considerations for Conversational Systems.- 5 Conversational Multimedia Interaction.- 6 The SpeakEasy Dialogue Controller.- 7 Choosing a Response Using Problem Solving Plans and Rhetorical Relations.- 8 Deception and Suspicion in Medical Interactions.- 9 Parsing Utterances Including Self-Repairs.- 10 A Synthetic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems.- 11 Designing for Naturalness in Automated Dialogues.- 12 Turn Taking versus Discourse Structure.- 13 The BABY Project.- 14 A Responsive Dialog System.- 15 Situated Communication with Robots.- 16 LEAP: Language Enabled Applications.- 17 CONVERSE: a Conversational Companion.

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