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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Presupposition Accommodation as Exception Handling
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...
Philippe de Groote, Ekaterina Lebedeva
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Pamini: A framework for assembling mixed-initiative human-robot interaction from generic interaction patterns
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...
Julia Peltason, Britta Wrede
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
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...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Reference reversibility with Reference Domain Theory
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...
Alexandre Denis
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
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...
Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan W. Black,...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Autism and Interactional Aspects of Dialogue
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...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Same and Elaboration Relations in the Discourse Graphbank
This study investigates the use of Same
Irina V. Borisova, Gisela Redeker
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations
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 ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing Local and Sequential Models for Statistical Incremental Natural Language Understanding
Incremental natural language understanding is the task of assigning semantic representations to successively larger prefixes of utterances. We compare two types of statistical mod...
Silvan Heintze, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen