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Dialogues with Social Robots

Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation

  • Features novel aspects of communication technology
  • Offers different perspectives and solutions to the important questions
  • Covers key topics in research and development in the field of Spoken Dialogue Systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 427)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. The Northernmost Spoken Dialogue Workshop

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami Language

      • Kristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Niklas Laxström, Ilona Rauhala, Graham Wilcock
      Pages 3-19
  3. Methods and Techniques for Spoken Dialogue Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing

      • Roman Sergienko, Muhammad Shan, Alexander Schmitt
      Pages 23-37
    3. Incremental Human-Machine Dialogue Simulation

      • Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche, Fabrice Lefèvre
      Pages 53-66
    4. Active Learning for Example-Based Dialog Systems

      • Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura
      Pages 67-78
    5. Question Selection Based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information Through Dialogue

      • Kazunori Komatani, Tsugumi Otsuka, Satoshi Sato, Mikio Nakano
      Pages 79-91
    6. Breakdown Detector for Chat-Oriented Dialogue

      • Tomo Horii, Hideaki Mori, Masahiro Araki
      Pages 119-127
    7. User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems

      • Florian Nothdurft, Pascal Bercher, Gregor Behnke, Wolfgang Minker
      Pages 129-141
  4. Socio-Cognitive Language Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker’s Emotion Calculated from Acoustic Features

      • Takumi Takahashi, Kazuya Mera, Tang Ba Nhat, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Takezawa
      Pages 145-157
    3. Salient Cross-Lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition

      • Maxim Sidorov, Christina Brester, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt
      Pages 159-169
    4. Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling Uncertainty

      • Manex Serras, Naiara Perez, María Inés Torres, Arantza del Pozo
      Pages 171-182
    5. Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent’s Personality

      • Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
      Pages 183-194
    6. Fisher Kernels on Phase-Based Features for Speech Emotion Recognition

      • Jun Deng, Xinzhou Xu, Zixing Zhang, Sascha Frühholz, Didier Grandjean, Björn Schuller
      Pages 195-203
  5. Towards Multilingual, Multimodal, Open Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

About this book

This book explores novel aspects of social robotics, spoken dialogue systems, human-robot interaction, spoken language understanding, multimodal communication, and system evaluation. It offers a variety of perspectives on and solutions to the most important questions about advanced techniques for social robots and chat systems. 

Chapters by leading researchers address key research and development topics in the field of spoken dialogue systems, focusing in particular on three special themes: dialogue state tracking, evaluation of human-robot dialogue in social robotics, and socio-cognitive language processing. 

The book offers a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in both academia and industry whose work involves advanced interaction technology and who are seeking an up-to-date overview of the key topics. It also provides supplementary educational material for courses on state-of-the-art dialogue system technologies, social robotics, and related research fields.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Helsinki, Finland

    Kristiina Jokinen

  • University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland

    Graham Wilcock

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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