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Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design covers key topics in the field of spoken language dialogue interaction from a variety of leading researchers. It brings together several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction, as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure. These topics are all part of the general research and development within the area of discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on dialogue systems; corpora and corpus tools and semantic and pragmatic modelling of discourse and dialogue.

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Multilingual Speech Interfaces for Resource-Constrained Dialogue Systems.- Online Learning of Bayes Risk-Based Optimization.- Towards Fine-Grain User-Simulation For Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Salient Features for Anger Recognition.- Psychomime Classification and Visualization.- Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Spoken Dialogue Research.- Dialogue Control by POMDP using Dialogue Data Statistics.- Proposal for a Practical Spoken Dialogue System Development Method.- Quality of Experiencing Multi-Modal Interaction.- Dialogue Acts Annotation to Construct Dialogue Systems for Consulting.- On the Use of N-gram Transducers for Dialogue Annotation.

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