Abstract. Understanding intent is an important aspect of communication among people and is an essential component of the human cognitive system. This capability is particularly rel...
Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher Kin...
Head pose and gesture offer several key conversational grounding cues and are used extensively in face-to-face interaction among people. We investigate how dialog context from an ...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Candace L. Sidner, Christo...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...