Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Preface.- Contributing Authors.- Trends and Challenges in Discourse and Dialogue by Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker.- Chapter 1 Where Do We Go From Here? By Roberto Pieraccini and Juan M. Huerta.- Chapter 2 Designing Speech-controlled Media File Selection for Automotive Systems by Yu-Fang H.Wang and Stefan W. Hamerich.- Chapter 3 A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction by David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella.- Chapter 4 Evaluating Interactions with Spoken Dialogue Telephone Services by Sebastian Möller.- Chapter 5 Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother? By Michael McTear.- Chapter 6 Sorry I Didn't Catch That! By Dan Bohus and Alexander I. Rudnicky.-Chapter 7 GALATEA: A Discourse Modeller Supporting Concept-Level Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems by Gabriel Skantze.- Chapter 8 Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management by Jason D. Williams, Pascal Poupart and Steve Young.- Chapter 9 Does This Answer Your Question? By Matthias Denecke and Norihito Yasuda.- Chapter 10 Meeting Structure Annotation by Alexander Gruenstein, John Niekrasz and Matthew Purver.- Chapter 11 Analyzing Dependencies between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus by Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman.-Abbreviations.- Index.