The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices (2016) .. by Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas & David Griol
Table of contents (18 chapters)
Introducing the Conversational Interface
Pages 1-7
The Dawn of the Conversational Interface
Pages 11-24
Toward a Technology of Conversation
Pages 25-50
Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present
Pages 51-72
Speech Input and Output
Pages 75-92
Implementing Speech Input and Output
Pages 93-123
Creating a Conversational Interface Using Chatbot Technology
Pages 125-159
Spoken Language Understanding
Pages 161-185
Implementing Spoken Language Understanding
Pages 187-208
Dialog Management
Pages 209-233
Implementing Dialog Management
Pages 235-263
Response Generation
Pages 265-279
Conversational Interfaces: Devices, Wearables, Virtual Agents, and Robots
Pages 283-308
Emotion, Affect, and Personality
Pages 309-327
Affective Conversational Interfaces
Pages 329-357
Implementing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Using Android Wear
Pages 359-376
Evaluating the Conversational Interface
Pages 379-402
Future Directions
Pages 403-418