Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Looking at the Interaction Management with New Eyes - Conversational Synchrony and Cooperation using Eye Gaze....Pages 3-3
Interacting with Purpose (and Feeling!): What Neuropsychology and the Performing Arts Can Tell Us About ’Real’ Spoken Language Behaviour....Pages 5-5
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Accessing Web Resources in Different Languages Using a Multilingual Speech Dialog System....Pages 9-15
New Technique for Handling ASR Errors at the Semantic Level in Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 17-29
Combining Slot-based Vector Space Model for Voice Book Search....Pages 31-39
Preprocessing of Dysarthric Speech in Noise Based on CV–Dependent Wiener Filtering....Pages 41-47
Conditional Random Fields for Modeling Korean Pronunciation Variation....Pages 49-55
An Analysis of the Speech Under Stress Using the Two-Mass Vocal Fold Model....Pages 57-62
Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for an Out-of-Domain Language Modeling....Pages 63-73
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Analysis on Effects of Text-to-Speech and Avatar Agent in Evoking Users’ Spontaneous Listener’s Reactions....Pages 77-89
Development of a Data-driven Framework for Multimodal Interactive Systems....Pages 91-101
Multiparty Conversation Facilitation Strategy Using Combination of Question Answering and Spontaneous Utterances....Pages 103-111
Conversational Speech Synthesis System with Communication Situation Dependent HMMs....Pages 113-123
An Event-Based Conversational System for the Nao Robot....Pages 125-132
Towards Learning Human-Robot Dialogue Policies Combining Speech and Visual Beliefs....Pages 133-140
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JAM: Java-based Associative Memory....Pages 143-155
Conversation Peculiarities of People with Different Verbal Intelligence....Pages 157-163
Merging Intention and Emotion to Develop Adaptive Dialogue Systems....Pages 165-174
All Users Are (Not) Equal - The Influence of User Characteristics on Perceived Quality, Modality Choice and Performance....Pages 175-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Parallel Computing and Practical Constraints when applying the Standard POMDP Belief Update Formalism to Spoken Dialogue Management....Pages 189-201
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Ranking Dialog Acts using Discourse Coherence Indicator for Language Tutoring Dialog Systems....Pages 203-214
On-line detection of task incompletion for spoken dialog systems using utterance and behavior tag N-gram vectors....Pages 215-225
Integration of Statistical Dialog Management Techniques to Implement Commercial Dialog Systems....Pages 227-239
A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manager....Pages 241-246
Using probabilistic logic for dialogue strategy selection....Pages 247-253
Starting to Cook a Coaching Dialogue System in the Olympus framework....Pages 255-267
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Performance of an Ad-hoc User Simulation in a Formative Evaluation of a Spoken Dialog System....Pages 271-283
Adapting Dialogue to User Emotion - A Wizard-of-Oz study for adaptation strategies....Pages 285-294
SpeechEval: A Domain-Independent User Simulation Platform for Spoken Dialog System Evaluation....Pages 295-300
Evaluating User-System Interactional Chains for Naturalness-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 301-313
Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue System that uses Utterance Timing to Interpret User Utterances....Pages 315-325
How context determines perceived quality and modality choice. Secondary task paradigm applied to the evaluation of multimodal interfaces....Pages 327-340
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Design and Implementation of a Toolkit for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Designed for AmI Environments....Pages 343-355
A Dialogue System for Conversational NPCs....Pages 357-363
Embedded Conversational Engine for Natural Language Interaction in Spanish....Pages 365-374
Adding Speech to a Robotics Simulator....Pages 375-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-384