Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami Language....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing....Pages 23-37
Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed Memory....Pages 39-51
Incremental Human-Machine Dialogue Simulation....Pages 53-66
Active Learning for Example-Based Dialog Systems....Pages 67-78
Question Selection Based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information Through Dialogue....Pages 79-91
Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated Planning....Pages 93-107
Breakdown Detector for Chat-Oriented Dialogue....Pages 109-118
User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems....Pages 119-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-141
Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker’s Emotion Calculated from Acoustic Features....Pages 143-143
Salient Cross-Lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition....Pages 145-157
Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling Uncertainty....Pages 159-169
Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent’s Personality....Pages 171-182
Fisher Kernels on Phase-Based Features for Speech Emotion Recognition....Pages 183-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-203
Internationalisation and Localisation of Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 205-205
A Multi-lingual Evaluation of the vAssist Spoken Dialog System. Comparing Disco and RavenClaw....Pages 207-219
Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal Dialog Framework....Pages 221-232
Data Collection and Synchronisation: Towards a Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue System with Metacognitive Abilities....Pages 233-244
HELPR: A Framework to Break the Barrier Across Domains in Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 245-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-269
Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog System....Pages 205-205
Front Matter....Pages 271-278
Is Spoken Language All-or-Nothing? Implications for Future Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction....Pages 279-279
Toward a Context-Based Approach to Assess Engagement in Human-Robot Social Interaction....Pages 281-291
Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Social Robotics....Pages 293-301
Engagement in Dialogue with Social Robots....Pages 303-311
Lend a Hand to Service Robots: Overcoming System Limitations by Asking Humans....Pages 313-319
Dialogue with Robots to Support Symbiotic Autonomy....Pages 321-329
Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia....Pages 331-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-351
Utterance Selection Using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems....Pages 353-353
Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation....Pages 355-365
Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation....Pages 367-379
An Evaluation Method for System Response in Chat-Oriented Dialogue System....Pages 381-393
The Negotiation Dialogue Game....Pages 395-402
Estimation of User’s Willingness to Talk About the Topic: Analysis of Interviews Between Humans....Pages 403-410
Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get There....Pages 411-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-432
The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge....Pages 433-433
Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-topic Dialog State Tracking....Pages 435-449
The MSIIP System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4....Pages 451-463
Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies....Pages 465-474
Back Matter....Pages 475-485
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