"Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system. The focus is on the design of a stochastic parser and its evaluation with respect to a conventional rule-based method. Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis will be of most interest to researchers in artificial intelligence, especially those in natural language processing, computational ..."
"This book provides a detailed and up-to-date overview on classification and data mining methods. The first part is focused on supervised classification algorithms and their applications, including recent research on the combination of classifiers. The second part deals with unsupervised data mining and knowledge discovery, with special attention to text mining. Discovering the underlying structure on a data set has been a key research t ..."
"Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and multi-party capabilities pose new challenges on the dialogue management component of such a system and require the use and administration of an extensive dialogue history. In order to assist t ..."
Speech and Human-Machine Dialog(Reprint) (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by WolfgangMinker, Samir Bennacef Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4757-8874-7, ISBN: 1-4757-8874-6
"Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis. Due to the conjunction of sev ..."
"Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising ..."
"This book addresses the problem of separating spontaneous multi-party speech by way of microphone arrays (beamformers) and adaptive signal processing techniques. It is written is a concise manner and an effort has been made such that all presented algorithms can be straightforwardly implemented by the reader. All experimental results have been obtained with real in-car microphone recordings involving simultaneous speech of the driver an ..."
"This book addresses the problem of separating spontaneous multi-party speech by way of microphone arrays (beamformers) and adaptive signal processing techniques. It is written is a concise manner and an effort has been made such that all presented algorithms can be straightforwardly implemented by the reader. All experimental results have been obtained with real in-car microphone recordings involving simultaneous speech of the driver an ..."
"Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising approach is presented. The ..."
"Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system. The focus is on the design of a stochastic parser and its evaluation with respect to a conventional rule-based method. Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis will be of most interest to researchers in artificial intelligence, especially those in natural language processing, computational ..."
"In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue syst ..."
"It is no longer reasonable to continue to propose static and rigid interfaces while
users, systems and environments are ... Then we describe the derived software
architecture and the user evaluation it led to. ... Gaëtan Pruvost National Center
for Scientific Research (LIMSI-CNRS) BP 133,91403, Orsay cedex, France, email
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"Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition addresses the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training / recognition effort feasible and improving speech recognition performance. The book provides an efficient general framework to incorporate additional knowledge sources int ..."
"The eleven chapters of this book represent an original contribution to the field of multimodal spoken dialogue systems. The material includes highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems. The book contains detailed application studies, including speech-controlled MP3 players in a car environment, negotiation training with a virtual human in a military context and the application of spok ..."
"In Monitoring Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems, authors Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker investigate statistical approaches that allow for recognition of negative dialog patterns in Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). The presented stochastic methods allow a flexible, portable and accurate use. Beginning with the foundations of machine learning and pattern recognition, this monograph examines how frequently users show negative emotions in ..."
"Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex Intelligent Environment (IE) consisting of ..."
"The first studies about cluster analysis were conducted in the field of analytical
psychology.Thereissomecontroversy in the literature about the attribution of the
initial clusteringschemes.However, according to D. E. Bailey [TRY 70], it seems to
be RobertC.Tryonwhooriginally conceived cluster analysis and its first application
to psychological data. Tryon envisaged and formulated algorithms to groupaset
of intellectual abilities i ..."
"Wolfgang Minker, Dr. Felix Burkhardt, Dr. Joachim Stegmann, Dr. David S
̈undermann, Dr. Roberto Pieraccini and Dr. Jackson Liscombe for their
encouragement and support. The authors also wish to thank their colleagues at
Quality and Usability Lab of Technische Universit ̈at Berlin / Deutsche Telekom
Laboratories, the Dialogue Systems Group of the Institute of Information
Technology at University of Ulm and the Language Technologies ..."
"Dirk Bühler, Wolfgang Minker ... 13(2) (1999) 177– 194 10. Bühler, D., Vignier, S.,
Heisterkamp, P., Minker, W.: Safety and Operating Issues for Mobile Human-
Machine Interfaces. In: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI
), ..."
"Petra-Maria Strauß, Wolfgang Minker. • Addressing information, i.e. which
participant is currently addressing which other DP(s). The information is
accessed by the QUD object. When a participant addresses a different DP, the
information is updated accordingly. By extending QUD to include the set of
addressees (ASET) and obligated responders (OSET) the fulfilment of obligations
to answer can be observed. The ASET and OSET fields con ..."
"Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition addresses the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training / recognition effort feasible and improving speech recognition performance. The book provides an efficient general framework to incorporate additional knowledge sources int ..."