COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
In this paper, we present an investigation into the use of cue phrases as a basis for dialogue act classification. We define what we mean by cue phrases, and describe how we extra...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
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 ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper introduces a new dialogue management framework for goal-directed conversations. A declarative specification defines the domain-specific elements and guides the dialogue...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper presents a spoken dialogue framework that helps users in making decisions. Users often do not have a definite goal or criteria for selecting from a list of alternatives...
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper proposes a method for extracting high-level rules for expository dialogue generation. The rules are extracted from dialogues that have been authored by expert dialogue ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper describes an initial prototype demonstrator of a Companion, designed as a platform for novel approaches to the following: 1) The use of Information Extraction (IE) tech...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Open-ended spoken interactions are typically characterised by both structural complexity and high levels of uncertainty, making dialogue management in such settings a particularly...
UMUAI
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Spoken dialogue systemperformance canvary widely fordifferentusers, aswell for the same userduring different dialogues.This paper presents the design and evaluation ofan adaptive v...