A Survey of User Modeling: User Models in Dialog Systems. Stereotypes and User Modeling. A Taxonomy of Beliefs and Goals for User Models in Dialog Systems --;Building User Models: KNOME: Modeling What the User Knows in UC. Detecting and Responding to Plan-Oriented Misconceptions. Plan Recognition and Its Use in Understanding Dialog. Learning the User's Language: A Step Towards Automated Creation of User Models --;Exploiting User Models: The Use of Explicit User Models in a Generation System for Tailoring Answers to the User's Level of Expertise. Highlighting a User Model to Respond to Misconceptions. But What Will the Listener Think? Belief Ascription and Image Maintenance in Dialog. Incorporating User Models into Expert Systems for Educational Diagnosis --;Shortcomings of Current Models, Prospects for the Future: Realism About User Modeling. User Models and Conversational Settings: Modeling the User's Wants. Student Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems --;Implications for User Modeling. GUMS --;A General User Modeling Shell --;Appendices: Bibliography. List of Contributors. Subject Index.
User models have recently attracted much research interest in the field of artificial intelligence dialog systems.