Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments

This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, in 2002. The workshop covered various aspects of devel- ment and evaluation of spoken multimodal dialogue systems and components with particular emphasis on mobile environments, and discussed the state-- the-art within this area. On the development side the major aspects addressed include speech recognition, dialogue management, multimodal output gene- tion, system architectures, full applications, and user interface issues. On the evaluation side primarily usability evaluation was addressed. A number of high quality papers from the workshop were selected to form the basis of this book. The volume is divided into three major parts which group together the ov- all aspects covered by the workshop. The selected papers have all been - tended, reviewed and improved after the workshop to form the backbone of the book. In addition, we have supplemented each of the three parts by an invited contribution intended to serve as an overview chapter.

From the reviews:

"This book contains a collection of 20 papers presenting current work in the field of development and evaluation of multimodal dialogue systems with a special emphasis on mobile environments. a ] an interesting and valuable contribution to the NLP community. It offers a good overview of the field of multimodal, mobile man-machine interaction and the different research areas within this field. a ] the book forms also a good starting point for students who want to specialize within the area of multimodal mobile dialogue systems." (Petra Gieselmann, The Linguist List, February, 2008)