Abstract This paper presents a framework for the generation of coherent elementary conversational sequences at the speech act level. We will embrace the notion of a cooperative dia...
Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, ...
This paper presents a method for automatically recognizing local cohesion between utterances, which is one of the discourse structures in task-oriented spoken dialogues. More spec...
The paper introduces the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO), which has been created in the framework of the Russian National Corpus (RNC). The MURCO provides the users with the gre...
Human interpersonal face-to-face interaction can be considered in terms of successions of speech acts. These are utterances which contain an intention, and the act of creating an ...
Although there are high expectations for collaborative discussion and on-line learning, existing systems for on-line discussion and chat facilities are not fully effective in prom...
The importance of defining a standard framework for agent communication languages (ACL) with a simple, clear, and a verifiable semantics has been widely recognized. This paper pro...
Domain shift is a challenging issue in dialogue management. This paper shows how to extract domain knowledge for dialogue model adaptation. The basic semantic concepts are derived ...
This paper describes new techniques for assessing pedagogical discourse via threaded discussions that are based on an analysis of speech acts and course topics. The context is an u...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...