Skip Act Vectors: integrating dialogue context into sentence embeddings -- End-to-end modeling for selection of utterance constructional units via system internal states -- Context Aware Dialog Management with Unsupervised Ranking -- Predicting laughter relevance spaces in dialogue -- Transfer Learning for Unseen Slots in End-to-end Dialogue State Tracking -- Managing Multi-task Dialogs by means of a Statistical Dialog Management Technique -- Generating supportive utterances for open-domain argumentative dialogue systems -- VOnDA: A Framework for Ontology-Based Dialogue Management -- Towards increasing naturalness and flexibility in human-robot dialogue systems -- A Classification-Based Approach to Automating Human-Robot Dialogue.

This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to language and context understanding, and dialogue management, as well as human-robot interaction, conversational agents, question answering and lifelong learning for dialogue systems.