This book summarizes the main problems posed by the design of aman–machine dialogue system and offers ideas on how tocontinue along the path towards efficient, realistic and fluidcommunication between humans and machines. A culmination of ten years of research, it is based on theauthor’s development, investigation and experimentationcovering a multitude of fields, including artificial intelligence,automated language processing, man–machine interfaces andnotably multimodal or multimedia interfaces. Contents Part 1. Historical and Methodological Landmarks 1. An Assessment of the Evolution of Research and Systems. 2. Man–Machine Dialogue Fields. 3. The Development Stages of a Dialogue System. 4. Reusable System Architectures. Part 2. Inputs Processing 5. Semantic Analyses and Representations. 6. Reference Resolution. 7. Dialogue Acts Recognition. Part 3. System Behavior and Evaluation 8. A Few Dialogue Strategies. 9. Multimodal Output Management. 10. Multimodal Dialogue System Assessment. About the Authors Frédéric Landragin is a computer science engineer andhas a PhD from the University of Lorraine, France. He is currentlyin charge of linguistics research for the French National Centerfor Scientific Research (CNRS). His studies focus on the analysisand modeling of language interpretation. Man–machine dialogueis one of the applications of this research.
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This book summarizes the main problems posed by the design of aman–machine dialogue system and offers ideas on how tocontinue along the path towards efficient, realistic and fluidcommunication between humans and machines. A culmination of ten years of research, it is based on theauthor’s development, investigation and experimentationcovering a multitude of fields, including artificial intelligence,automated language processing, man–machine interfaces andnotably multimodal or multimedia interfaces. Contents Part 1. Historical and Methodological Landmarks 1. An Assessment of the Evolution of Research and Systems. 2. Man–Machine Dialogue Fields. 3. The Development Stages of a Dialogue System. 4. Reusable System Architectures. Part 2. Inputs Processing 5. Semantic Analyses and Representations. 6. Reference Resolution. 7. Dialogue Acts Recognition. Part 3. System Behavior and Evaluation 8. A Few Dialogue Strategies. 9. Multimodal Output Management. 10. Multimodal Dialogue System Assessment. About the Authors Frédéric Landragin is a computer science engineer andhas a PhD from the University of Lorraine, France. He is currentlyin charge of linguistics research for the French National Centerfor Scientific Research (CNRS). His studies focus on the analysisand modeling of language interpretation. Man–machine dialogueis one of the applications of this research.