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Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants

Author : G.G. Lee

Publisher : Springer

Page : 269 pages

File Size : 31,39 MB

Release : 2015-09-28

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319192914

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Book Description

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.



Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems

Author : Ronnie W. Smith

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 33,84 MB

Release : 1995-02-02

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0195357914

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As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user model usage, expectation usage for contextual interpretation and error correction, and variable initiative behavior for interacting with users of differing expertise. The book also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, and provides instructions and in-depth result from pertinent experiments. Researchers and professionals in natural language systems will find this important new book an invaluable addition to their libraries.



Studies in Conversational UX Design

Author : Robert J. Moore

Publisher : Springer

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 27,86 MB

Release : 2018-09-03

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319955799

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As voice interfaces and virtual assistants have moved out of the industry research labs and into the pockets, desktops and living rooms of the general public, a demand for a new kind of user experience (UX) design is emerging. Although the people are becoming familiar with Siri, Alexa, Cortana and others, their user experience is still characterized by short, command- or query-oriented exchanges, rather than longer, conversational ones. Limitations of the microphone and natural language processing technologies are only part of the problem. Current conventions of UX design apply mostly to visual user interfaces, such as web or mobile; they are less useful for deciding how to organize utterances, by the user and the virtual agent, into sequences that work like those of natural human conversation. This edited book explores the intersection of UX design, of both text- or voice-based virtual agents, and the analysis of naturally occurring human conversation (e.g., the Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics literatures). It contains contributions from researchers, from academia and industry, with varied backgrounds working in the area of human-computer interaction. Each chapter explores some aspect of conversational UX design. Some describe the design challenges faced in creating a particular virtual agent. Others discuss how the findings from the literatures of the social sciences can inform a new kind of UX design that starts with conversation.



Interactive Collaborative Robotics

Author : Andrey Ronzhin

Publisher : Springer

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 11,16 MB

Release : 2017-09-01

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319664719

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017, as a satellite event of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017. The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. This new conference invites researchers in the area of social robotics and collaborative robotics to share experience in human-machine interaction research and development of robotic and cyberphysical systems. Topics addressed are: assistive robots, child-robot interaction, collaborative robotics, educational robotics, human-robot interaction, medical robotics, robotic mobility systems, robots at home, robot control and communication, social robotics, as well as safety robot behavior.



Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

Author : Stanislav Ivanov

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 43,25 MB

Release : 2019-10-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1787566870

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Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book focuses on current and future use of RAISA technologies in the tourism economy, including examples from the hotel, restaurant, travel agency, museum, and events industries.



Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture

Author : Vivek Kale

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 483 pages

File Size : 26,11 MB

Release : 2019-07-08

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 1351029126

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"In this book, Vivek Kale makes an important contribution to the theory and practice of enterprise architecture ... this book captures the breadth and depth of information that a modern enterprise architecture must address to effectively support an agile enterprise. This book should have a place in every practicing architect's library." —John D. McDowall, Author of Complex Enterprise Architecture Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture is the first book to propose Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the most important element (after Business Models) for digital transformation of enterprises. This book makes digital transformation more tangible by showing the rationale and typical technologies associated with it, and these technologies in turn reveal the essence of digital transformation. This book would be useful for analysts, designers and developers of future-ready agile application systems. This book proposes that it is the perennial quest for interoperability & portability, scalability, availability, etc., that has directed and driven the evolution of the IT/IS industry in the past 50 years. It is this very quest that has led to the emergence of technologies like service-oriented, cloud, and big data computing. In addition to the conventional attributes of EA like interoperability, scalability and availability, this book identifies additional attributes of mobility, ubiquity, security, analyticity, and usability. This pragmatic book: Identifies three parts effort for any digital transformation: Business Models, Enterprise Architectures and Enterprise Processes. Describes eight attributes of EA: interoperability, scalability, availability, mobility, ubiquity, security, analyticity, and usability. Explains the corresponding technologies of service-oriented, cloud, big data, context-aware, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, soft, and interactive computing. Briefs on auxiliary technologies like integration, virtualization, replication, spatio-temporal databases, embedded systems, cryptography, data mining, and interactive interfaces that are essential for digital transformation of enterprise architecture. Introduces interactive interfaces like voice, gaze, gesture and 3D interfaces. Provides an overview of blockchain computing, soft computing, and customer interaction systems. Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture proposes that to withstand the disruptive digital storms of the future, enterprises must bring about digital transformation, i.e. a transformation that affects an exponential change (amplification or attenuation) in any aspect of the constituent attributes of EA. It proposes that each of these technologies (service-oriented, cloud, big data, context-aware, IoT, blockchain, soft, and interactive computing) bring about digital transformation of the corresponding EA attribute viz. interoperability, scalability, availability, mobility, ubiquity, security, analyticity, and usability.



PRICAI 2022: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Author : Sankalp Khanna

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 616 pages

File Size : 27,34 MB

Release : 2022-11-03

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3031208625

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Book Description

This three-volume set, LNAI 13629, LNAI 13630, and LNAI 13631 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 19th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2022, held in Shangai, China, in November 10–13, 2022. The 91 full papers and 39 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 432 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning and scheduling, computer vision, distributed artificial intelligence, search methodologies, etc.



The Conversational Interface

Author : Michael McTear

Publisher : Springer

Page : 431 pages

File Size : 20,84 MB

Release : 2016-05-19

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3319329677

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the conversational interface, which is becoming the main mode of interaction with virtual personal assistants, smart devices, various types of wearable, and social robots. The book consists of four parts. Part I presents the background to conversational interfaces, examining past and present work on spoken language interaction with computers. Part II covers the various technologies that are required to build a conversational interface along with practical chapters and exercises using open source tools. Part III looks at interactions with smart devices, wearables, and robots, and discusses the role of emotion and personality in the conversational interface. Part IV examines methods for evaluating conversational interfaces and discusses future directions.



Artificial Intelligence Applications and Reconfigurable Architectures

Author : Anuradha D. Thakare

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 28,96 MB

Release : 2023-03-21

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1119857295

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS and RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES The primary goal of this book is to present the design, implementation, and performance issues of AI applications and the suitability of the FPGA platform. This book covers the features of modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices, design techniques, and successful implementations pertaining to AI applications. It describes various hardware options available for AI applications, key advantages of FPGAs, and contemporary FPGA ICs with software support. The focus is on exploiting parallelism offered by FPGA to meet heavy computation requirements of AI as complete hardware implementation or customized hardware accelerators. This is a comprehensive textbook on the subject covering a broad array of topics like technological platforms for the implementation of AI, capabilities of FPGA, suppliers’ software tools and hardware boards, and discussion of implementations done by researchers to encourage the AI community to use and experiment with FPGA. Readers will benefit from reading this book because It serves all levels of students and researcher’s as it deals with the basics and minute details of Ecosystem Development Requirements for Intelligent applications with reconfigurable architectures whereas current competitors’ books are more suitable for understanding only reconfigurable architectures. It focuses on all aspects of machine learning accelerators for the design and development of intelligent applications and not on a single perspective such as only on reconfigurable architectures for IoT applications. It is the best solution for researchers to understand how to design and develop various AI, deep learning, and machine learning applications on the FPGA platform. It is the best solution for all types of learners to get complete knowledge of why reconfigurable architectures are important for implementing AI-ML applications with heavy computations. Audience Researchers, industrial experts, scientists, and postgraduate students who are working in the fields of computer engineering, electronics, and electrical engineering, especially those specializing in VLSI and embedded systems, FPGA, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and related multidisciplinary projects.