Book Review Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots

Abstract

The book summarized here is titled " Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots ", authored by Michael McTear, a retired professor at Ulster University in the UK. It is part of the Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies series, which focuses on computational linguistics. The target audience of the book includes researchers in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. The book was reviewed by Olga Semenik, a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France, who described it as an "easily readable introduction" to the various concepts and techniques in Artificial Intelligence.The book consists of six chapters that cover a wide range of topics such as rule-based systems, statistical systems, evaluation methods, and a review of neural systems, concluding with a discussion of the challenges and future research directions in this evolving field.The Arabic translation of this book was done by Mahmoud Mohamed Rayan, a PhD researcher at Menofia University in Egypt, holding a Master's degree in Literary Criticism with a focus on Cognitive Studies