Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Language Technology II

Recommended Reading

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Reading will be assigned at the lectures.

Natural language human-computer interaction

  • General
  • D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing. Chapter 19. Prentice Hall. 2000.

    M. McTear. Spoken dialogue technology: Enabling the conversational user interface. ACM Computing Surveys, 34(1):90-169, 2002. Download.

    H. Clark. Using Language. Chapters 4 and 8. Cambridge University Press. 1996.

    MiLCA online course on dialogue: Version 1 and Version 2

  • Sub-areas
  • R. San Segundo, J.M. Montero, J. Ferreiros, R. Cordoba and J.M. Pardo. Designing Confirmation Mechanisms and Error Recover Techniques in a Railway Information System for Spanish. In Proceedings of the SigDial Workshop. 2001. Download.

    B.A. Hockey, O. Lemon, E. Campana, L. Hiatt, G. Aist, J. Hieronymus, A. Gruenstein, and J. Dowding. Targeted Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Intelligent Feedback Improves Naive User's Performance. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Budapest, Hungary, April 2003. Download

    G. Gorrell, I. Lewin and M. Rayner. Adding Intelligent Help to Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialoge Systems. In Proc. of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2002. Download

For further reading see references in the individual lectures.