Van der Sandt's algorithm for handling presupposition is based on a "presupposition as anaphora" paradigm and is expressed in the realm of Kamp's DRT. In recen...
Dialog modeling in robotics suffers from lack of generalizability, due to the fact that the dialog is heavily influenced by the tasks the robot is able to perform. We introduce in...
Classifying the dialogue act of a user utterance is a key functionality of a dialogue management system. This paper presents a data-driven dialogue act classifier that is learned ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips...
In this paper we present a reference model based on Reference Domain Theory that can work both in interpretation and generation. We introduce a formalization of key concepts of RD...
We describe an approach to improving the naturalness of a social dialogue system, Talkie, by adding disfluencies and other content-independent enhancements to synthesized conversa...
Little research has been done to explore differences in the interactional aspects of dialogue between children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and those with typical develop...
Peter A. Heeman, Rebecca Lunsford, Ethan Selfridge...
We report results on predicting the sense of implicit discourse relations between adjacent sentences in text. Our investigation concentrates on the association between discourse r...
Annie Louis, Aravind K. Joshi, Rashmi Prasad, Ani ...
Incremental natural language understanding is the task of assigning semantic representations to successively larger prefixes of utterances. We compare two types of statistical mod...