Based on dialogue systems freely available for academic use, this book covers state-of-the-art research in data-driven, machine-learning approaches to developing spoken conversational interfaces, collating the data from the EU’s groundbreaking CLASSIC project.
Chapter 1. Conversational Interfaces.- Chapter 2. Developing Dialogue Managers from Limited Amounts of Data.- Chapter 3. Data-Driven Methods for Spoken Language Understanding.- Chapter 4. User Simulation in the Development of Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Chapter 5. Optimisation for POMDP-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Chapter 6. Statistical Approaches to Adaptive Natural Language Generation.- Chapter 7. Metrics and Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Chapter 8. Data-Driven Methods in Industrial Spoken Dialog Systems.- Chapter 9. Future Research Directions.