Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments

Long Papers.- Impact of a Newly Developed Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpus on Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition Systems.- User and Noise Adaptive Dialogue Management Using Hybrid System Actions.- Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System.- Evaluation of Two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition.- Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models.- Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses.- Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System.- D3 Toolkit: A Development Toolkit for Daydreaming Spoken Dialog Systems.- New Technique to Enhance the Performance of Spoken Dialogue Systems by Means of Implicit Recovery of ASR Errors.- Simulation of the Grounding Process in Spoken Dialog Systems with Bayesian Networks.- Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems.- A Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Industrial Dissemination.- Short Papers.- Impact of Semantic Web on the Development of Spoken Dialogue Systems.- A User Model to Predict User Satisfaction with Spoken Dialog Systems.- Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach.- Rational Communication and Affordable Natural Language Interaction for Ambient Environments.- Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System.- A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria.- A Classifier-Based Approach to Supporting the Augmentation of the Question-Answer Database for Spoken Dialogue Systems.- The Influence of the Usage Mode on Subjectively Perceived Quality.- Demo Papers.- Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager.- Spoken Dialogue System Based on Information Extraction from Web Text.