Current approaches to story generation do not utilize models of human affect to create stories with dramatic arc, suspense, and surprise. This paper describes current and future wo...
By learning a range of possible times over which the effect of an action can take place, a robot can reason more effectively about causal and contingent relationships in the world...
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
The view that communication is a form of action serving a variety of specific functions has had a tremendous impact on the philosophy of language and on computational linguistics....
This study of the flow of online discussions examined how earlier messages affected later messages along five dimensions: (1) evaluations (agree, disagree, or unresponsive actions...