Joseph Mariani & Sophie Rosset 
Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones [PDF ebook] 
Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and, 5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.

Table of Content

Dialog for Robot Interaction.- Dialog for Interacting with Smartphones.- Dialog for Open Domain Knowledge Access.- Mediated and Crosslingual Dialog.- Spoken Dialog Prototypes and Products.- Speech Recognition and Understanding.- Emotional and Interactional Profile of the Speaker During Dialog.- Dialog Management.- Adapting, Sharing and Learning.- Objective and Subjective Spoke Dialog Systems Quality Evaluation Methodologies, Strategies and Paradigms.- Spoken Dialog Databases and Corpora, Including Methodologies and Ethics.