Table of contents : Overview....Pages 1-13 User errors in spoken human-machine dialogue....Pages 14-28 Towards a dialogue taxonomy....Pages 29-40 Using an interpretation system — Some observations in hidden operator simulations of ‘VERBMOBIL’....Pages 41-54 Classification of public transport information dialogues using an information based coding scheme....Pages 55-69 Speech production in human-machine dialogue: A natural language generation perspective....Pages 70-85 Input segmentation of spontaneous speech in JANUS: A speech-to-speech translation system....Pages 86-99 “Pause units” and analysis of spontaneous Japanese dialogues: Preliminary studies....Pages 100-112 Syntactic procedures for the detection of self-repairs in German dialogues....Pages 113-124 Utterance units in spoken dialogue....Pages 125-140 Development principles for dialog-based interfaces....Pages 141-155 Designing a portable spoken dialogue system....Pages 156-170 Minimizing cumulative error in discourse context....Pages 171-182 Automatic evaluation environment for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 183-194 End-to-end evaluation in JANUS: A speech-to-speech translation system....Pages 195-206 A task-based evaluation of the TRAINS-95 dialogue system....Pages 207-220