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Books by Wolfgang Minker






Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems
by Wolfgang Minker, Alexander Schmitt
Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-4592-0, ISBN: 1-4614-4592-2

"In Monitoring Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems, authors Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker investigate statistical approaches that allow for recognition of negative dialog patterns in Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). The presented stochastic methods allow a flexible, portable and  accurate use. Beginning with the foundations of machine learning and pattern recognition, this monograph examines how frequently users show negative emotions in ..."






Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
by Mohamed Elmahdy, Wolfgang Minker, Rainer Gruhn
Hardcover, 110 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-1905-1, ISBN: 1-4614-1905-0

"Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech describes approaches to improve automatic speech recognition for dialectal Arabic. Since speech resources for dialectal Arabic speech recognition are very sparse, the authors describe how existing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech data can be applied to dialectal Arabic speech recognition, while assuming that MSA is always a second language for all Arabic speakers. In this book, Egyptian Co ..."






Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments
by Tobias Heinroth, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-5382-6, ISBN: 1-4614-5382-8

"Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex Intelligent Environment (IE) consisting of ..."






Domain Level Reasoning For Spoken Dialogue Systems Edition 1
by Dirk Bühler, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 185 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-9727-2, ISBN: 1-4419-9727-X

"Reasoning for Information: Seeking and Planning Dialogues provides a logic-based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. This component, called Problem Assistant is responsible for processing constraints on a possible solution obtained from various sources, namely user and the system's domain-specific information. The authors also present findings on the implementation of a dialogue management interface to the Problem ..."






Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments
by Wolfgang Minker, Petra-Maria Strauß
Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 2010 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-5991-1, ISBN: 1-4419-5991-2

"Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and multi-party capabilities pose new challenges on the dialogue management component of such a system and require the use and administration of an extensive dialogue history. In order to assist t ..."






Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis(Reprint)
(The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Wolfgang Minker, Joseph-Jean Mariani, Alex Waibel
Paperback, 221 Pages, Published 1999 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-7396-4, ISBN: 1-4613-7396-4

"Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system. The focus is on the design of a stochastic parser and its evaluation with respect to a conventional rule-based method. Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis will be of most interest to researchers in artificial intelligence, especially those in natural language processing, computational ..."






Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
(Paperback)
by Mohamed Elmahdy, Rainer Gruhn, Wolfgang Minker
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-9945-0, ISBN: 1-4899-9945-0

"Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech describes approaches to improve automatic speech recognition for dialectal Arabic. Since speech resources for dialectal Arabic speech recognition are very sparse, the authors describe how existing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech data can be applied to dialectal Arabic speech recognition, while assuming that MSA is always a second language for all Arabic speakers. In this book, Egyptian Co ..."






Semi-Supervised and Unervised Machine Learning(1st Edition)
Novel Strategies (Iste)
by Amparo Albalate, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Wiley-Iste
ISBN-13: 978-1-84821-203-9, ISBN: 1-84821-203-8

"This book provides a detailed and up-to-date overview on classification and data mining methods. The first part is focused on supervised classification algorithms and their applications, including recent research on the combination of classifiers. The second part deals with unsupervised data mining and knowledge discovery, with special attention to text mining. Discovering the underlying structure on a data set has been a key research t ..."






Time-Domain Beamforming and Blind Source Separation
Speech Input in the Car Environment (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
by Julien Bourgeois, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 2009 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-68835-0, ISBN: 0-387-68835-8

"This book addresses the problem of separating spontaneous multi-party speech by way of microphone arrays (beamformers) and adaptive signal processing techniques. It is written is a concise manner and an effort has been made such that all presented algorithms can be straightforwardly implemented by the reader. All experimental results have been obtained with real in-car microphone recordings involving simultaneous speech of the driver an ..."






Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals
(Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
by Bernd Iser, Gerhard Schmidt, Wolfgang Minker, Phillip A. Laplante, Margot B. Nadien, Florence L. Denmark, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-68898-5, ISBN: 0-387-68898-6

"Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising approach is presented. The ..."






Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis
(The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Wolfgang Minker, Alex Waibel, Joseph Mariani
Hardcover, 221 Pages, Published 1999 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-8571-4, ISBN: 0-7923-8571-3

"Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis investigates the problem of automatic natural language understanding in a spoken language dialog system. The focus is on the design of a stochastic parser and its evaluation with respect to a conventional rule-based method. Stochastically-Based Semantic Analysis will be of most interest to researchers in artificial intelligence, especially those in natural language processing, computational ..."






Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
by Laila Dybkjær, Holmer Hemsen, Wolfgang Minker, Laila Dybkjã¦R, W. Minker :
Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 2007 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5815-8, ISBN: 1-4020-5815-2

"In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue syst ..."






Speech and Human-Machine Dialog(Reprint)
(The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
by Wolfgang Minker, Samir Bennacef
Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4757-8874-7, ISBN: 1-4757-8874-6

"Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis. Due to the conjunction of sev ..."






Adaptive Multimodal Interactive Systems
(Hardback)
by Matthias Bezold, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-9709-8, ISBN: 1-4419-9709-1

"J. Annett and KD Duncan. Task Analysis and Training Design. ... Technical report , General Electric Inc., 2007. L. Ardissono, C. Gena ..."






Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition
(Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
by Sakriani Sakti, Konstantin Markov, Satoshi Nakamura, Wolfgang Minker
Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 2009 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-85829-6, ISBN: 0-387-85829-6

"Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition addresses the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training / recognition effort feasible and improving speech recognition performance. The book provides an efficient general framework to incorporate additional knowledge sources int ..."






Next Generation Intelligent Environments
Ambient Adaptive Systems
by Wolfgang Minker, Tobias Heinroth
Hardcover, 295 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-1298-4, ISBN: 1-4614-1298-6

"Intelligent environments represent an emerging topic in research. Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems will cover all key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical background, the developed prototypes, and the evaluated results form a fertile ground use ..."






Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue
(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
by Laila Dybkjær, Wolfgang Minker, Laila Dybkjã¦R
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-6820-1, ISBN: 1-4020-6820-4

"The eleven chapters of this book represent an original contribution to the field of multimodal spoken dialogue systems. The material includes highly relevant topics, such as dialogue modeling in research systems versus industrial systems. The book contains detailed application studies, including speech-controlled MP3 players in a car environment, negotiation training with a virtual human in a military context and the application of spok ..."






Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
by Laila Dybkjær, Holmer Hemsen, Wolfgang Minker, Laila Dybkjã†R
Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5816-5, ISBN: 1-4020-5816-0

"In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue syst ..."






Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems
by Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker
Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-9168-3, ISBN: 1-4899-9168-9

"In Monitoring Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems, authors Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker investigate statistical approaches that allow for recognition of negative dialog patterns in Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). The presented stochastic methods allow a flexible, portable and  accurate use. Beginning with the foundations of machine learning and pattern recognition, this monograph examines how frequently users show negative emotions in ..."






Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems Into Intelligent Environments
(Paperback)
by Tobias Heinroth, Wolfgang Minker
Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-9320-5, ISBN: 1-4899-9320-7

"Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments outlines the formalisms of a novel knowledge-driven framework for spoken dialogue management and presents the implementation of a model-based Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Manager(ASDM) called OwlSpeak. The authors have identified three stakeholders that potentially influence the behavior of the ASDM: the user, the SDS, and a complex Intelligent Environment (IE) consisting of ..."



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