Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, IWSDS 2010, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, October 1-2, 2010. Proceedings / edited by Gary Geunbae Lee, Joseph Mariani, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura.

Long Papers -- Impact of a Newly Developed Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpus on Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition Systems -- User and Noise Adaptive Dialogue Management Using Hybrid System Actions -- Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System -- Evaluation of Two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition -- Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models -- Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses -- Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System -- D3 Toolkit: A Development Toolkit for Daydreaming Spoken Dialog Systems -- New Technique to Enhance the Performance of Spoken Dialogue Systems by Means of Implicit Recovery of ASR Errors -- Simulation of the Grounding Process in Spoken Dialog Systems with Bayesian Networks -- Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems -- A Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Industrial Dissemination -- Short Papers -- Impact of Semantic Web on the Development of Spoken Dialogue Systems -- A User Model to Predict User Satisfaction with Spoken Dialog Systems -- Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach -- Rational Communication and Affordable Natural Language Interaction for Ambient Environments -- Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System -- A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria -- A Classifier-Based Approach to Supporting the Augmentation of the Question-Answer Database for Spoken Dialogue Systems -- The Influence of the Usage Mode on Subjectively Perceived Quality -- Demo Papers -- Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager -- Spoken Dialogue System Based on Information Extraction from Web Text.