This book covers state-of-the-art topics on the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog
Systems and intelligent assistants in everyday applications. It presents scientific
achievements in language processing that result in the development of successful applications
and addresses general issues regarding the advances in Spoken Dialog Systems with applications
in robotics knowledge access and communication. Emphasis is placed on the following topics:
speaker language recognition user modeling simulation evaluation of dialog system
multi-modality emotion recognition from speech speech data mining language resource and
databases machine learning for spoken dialog systems and educational and healthcare
applications.
