This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems. It presents POMDP as a formal framework to r

Spoken Dialogues with Computers gives a complete state-of-the-art description of all the components of a computer-based spoken dialogue system. Experts review t

This monograph is the first survey of neural approaches to conversational AI that targets Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval audiences. It pr

A chatbot is expected to be capable of supporting a cohesive and coherent conversation and be knowledgeable, which makes it one of the most complex intelligent

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between speech and language processing, investigating human/ machine and human/ human communication