Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

• Dialog for Robot Interaction.- Dialog for Interacting with Smartphones.- Dialog for Open Domain Knowledge Access.- Mediated and Crosslingual Dialog.- Spoken Dialog Prototypes and Products.- Speech Recognition and Understanding.- Emotional and Interactional Profile of the Speaker During Dialog.- Dialog Management.- Adapting, Sharing and Learning.- Objective and Subjective Spoke Dialog Systems Quality Evaluation Methodologies, Strategies and Paradigms.- Spoken Dialog Databases and Corpora, Including Methodologies and Ethics.

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