BACKGROUND Dialog systems are systems in which a person speaks or otherwise enters
input to a computer in natural language, in order to accomplish a result. With the rise of …

Navigating large, urban transportation networks is a complicated task. A user needs to
negotiate the available modes of transportation, their schedules, and how they are …

The work presented in this paper aims at improving in-car speech recognition performance
in presence of interfering signals diffused by the loudspeakers, addressing the well known …

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that
has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken …

In this paper, we discuss a system that provides driving directions (in written form) to a user,
and its evaluation. We show that providing those additional cues improves wayfinding …

This chapter presents an advanced dialogue system based on in-car hands-free voice
interaction, conceived for obtaining driving assistance and for accessing tourist information …