TY - GEN N2 - This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), "Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies". It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness. AB - This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), "Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies". It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness. T1 - 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology / AU - D'Haro, Luis Fernando. AU - Banchs, Rafael E. AU - Li, Haizhou. VL - volume 579 CN - TJ211.49 N1 - Includes author index. ID - 914905 KW - Human-robot interaction KW - Semantic computing SN - 9789811394430 SN - 9811394431 TI - 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0 ER -