Spoken dialogue systems for ambient environments : second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, IWSDS 2010, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, October 1-2, 2010 : proceedings

Annotation. This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The Second International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems, Iwds 2010, Held In Gotemba, Japan, In October 2010. The 22 Session Papers Presented Together With 2 Invited Keynote Talks Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From Numerous Submissions. The Papers Deal With Topics Around Spoken Dialogue Systems For Ambient Environment And Discuss Common Issues Of Theories, Applications, Evaluation, Limitations, General Tools And Techniques. Front Matter....Pages - Impact of a Newly Developed Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpus on Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition Systems....Pages 1-12 User and Noise Adaptive Dialogue Management Using Hybrid System Actions....Pages 13-24 Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System....Pages 25-35 Evaluation of Two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition....Pages 36-47 Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models....Pages 48-60 Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses....Pages 61-72 Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System....Pages 73-84 D3 Toolkit: A Development Toolkit for Daydreaming Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 85-95 New Technique to Enhance the Performance of Spoken Dialogue Systems by Means of Implicit Recovery of ASR Errors....Pages 96-109 Simulation of the Grounding Process in Spoken Dialog Systems with Bayesian Networks....Pages 110-121 Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems....Pages 122-131 A Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Industrial Dissemination....Pages 132-143 Impact of Semantic Web on the Development of Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 144-149 A User Model to Predict User Satisfaction with Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 150-155 Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach....Pages 156-162 Rational Communication and Affordable Natural Language Interaction for Ambient Environments....Pages 163-168 Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System....Pages 169-175 A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria....Pages 176-181 A Classifier-Based Approach to Supporting the Augmentation of the Question-Answer Database for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 182-187 The Influence of the Usage Mode on Subjectively Perceived Quality....Pages 188-193 Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager....Pages 194-195 Spoken Dialogue System Based on Information Extraction from Web Text....Pages 196-197 Back Matter....Pages - Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWDS 2010, that was held in Gotemba, Japan.