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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450558603321

Autore

Smith Ronnie W.

Titolo

Spoken natural language dialog systems : a practical approach / / Ronnie W. Smith, D. Richard Hipp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-19-756068-7

1-280-44985-3

9786610449859

0-19-535791-4

1-60129-997-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

006.4/54

Soggetti

Speech processing systems

Natural language processing (Computer science)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Achieving Spoken Communication with Computers; 2 Foundational Work in Integrated Dialog Processing; 3 Dialog Processing Theory; 4 Computational Model; 5 Parsing; 6 System Implementation; 7 Experimental Results; 8 Performance of the Speech Recognizer and Parser; 9 Enhanced Dialog Processing: Verifying Doubtful Inputs; 10 Extending the State of the Art; A: The Goal and Action Description Language; B: User's Guide for the Interruptible Prolog SIMulator (IPSIM); C: Obtaining the System Software Via Anonymous FTP; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This text presents an exciting dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviours 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 & error correction, & variable initiative behaviour for interacting with users of differing expertise. The work also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, & provides instructions & in-depth result from pertinent experiments.