Spoken dialogue is notoriously hard to process with standard language processing technologies. Dialogue systems must indeed meet two major challenges. First, natural spoken dialogu...
As spoken dialogue systems become deployed in increasingly complex domains, they face rising demands on the naturalness of interaction. We focus on system responsiveness, aiming t...
An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic...
Bo Zhang, Changbo Hu, Qingsheng Cai, Baining Guo, ...
Conversational implicatures are usually described as being licensed by the disobeying or flouting of some principle by the speaker in cooperative dialogue. However, such work has...
In this article, we work towards the goal of developing agents that can learn to act in complex worlds. We develop a a new probabilistic planning rule representation to compactly ...
Hanna M. Pasula, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Leslie Pack ...