Publication
Software engineering is by nature a highly collaborative
activity and being able to collaborate effectively is a
key factor for project success. However, collaborating effectivel...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (co...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The purpose of this study is to get a working definition that matches people's intuitive notion of gossip and is sufficiently precise for computational implementation. We con...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
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...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Many potential applications of virtual agents require an agent to conduct multiple conversations with users. An effective and engaging agent should modify its behavior in realisti...
ICMCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
We have recorded a new corpus of emotionally coloured conversations. Users were recorded while holding conversations with an operator who adopts in sequence four roles designed to...
IWC
2008
13 years 2 months ago
2008
This paper presents a descriptive lexical analysis of spontaneous conversations between users and the 2005 Loebner prize winning chatterbot, Jabberwacky. The study was motivated i...
CE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
: Much recent educational research focuses on teaching and learning within classroom conversations. This raises the question of the role of ICT as a support for such conversations....
ACL
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately. We ref...