Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design

1. Multilingual Speech Interfaces for Resource-Constrained Dialogue Systems
Martin Raab, Rainer Gruhn, Elmar Nöth

2. Online Learning of Bayes Risk-Based Optimization of Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval Systems with Speech Interface
Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura

3. Towards Fine-Grain User-Simulation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ramón López-Cózar, David Griol, Gonzalo Espejo, Zoraida Callejas, Nieves Ábalos

4. Salient Features for Anger Recognition in German and English IVR Portals
Tim Polzehl, Alexander Schmitt, Florian Metze

5. Psychomime Classification and Visualization Using a Self-Organizing Map for Implementing Emotional Spoken Dialogue System
Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Kazuya Mera, Toshiyuki Takezawa

6. Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Spoken Dialogue Research
Michael McTear

7. Dialogue Control by Pomdp Using Dialogue Data Statistics
Yasuhiro Minami, Akira Mori, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda

8. Proposal for a Practical Spoken Dialogue System Development Method
Masahiro Araki, Takashi Hattori

9. Quality of Experiencing Multi-Modal Interaction
Benjamin Weiss, Sebastian Möller, Ina Wechsung, Christine Kühnel

10. Dialogue Acts Annotation to Construct Dialogue Systems for Consulting
Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura

11. On the Use of N-Gram Transducers for Dialogue Annotation
Vicent Tamarit, Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos, José-Miguel Benedí

Keywords: Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Language Translation and Linguistics