Floor control is a scheme used by people to organize speaking turns in multi-party conversations. Identifying the floor control shifts is important for understanding a conversati...
A number of recent studies have demonstrated that groups benefit considerably from access to shared visual information. This is due, in part, to the communicative efficiencies pro...
When we start to engage machines in conversation, what language will it be? While natural language is our preferred means of communication, natural language processing is by no mea...
In the paper it is argued that for some linguistic phenomena, current discourse representation structures are insufficiently finegrained, both from the perspective of serving as r...
Abstract. One important component of interactive systems is the generation component. While template-based generation is appropriate in many cases (for example, task oriented spoke...