SIGDIAL
2010
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2010
The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper describes the design of a backchannel feedback corpus and its evaluation, aiming at realizing in-car spoken dialogue systems with high responsiveness. We constructed ou...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The present study explores the vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in a corpus of dialogues in Swedish. Cue phrases convey relatively little propositional content, but hav...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Spoken language interaction between humans and robots in natural environments will necessarily involve communication about space and distance. The current study examines people�...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper we present experiments related to the validation of spoken language understanding capabilities in a language and culture training system. In this application, word-l...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Implicit discourse relation recognition is difficult due to the absence of explicit discourse connectives between arbitrary spans of text. In this paper, we use language models to...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Statistical user simulation is a promising methodology to train and evaluate the performance of (spoken) dialog systems. We work with a modular architecture for data-driven simula...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the `middleware' layer in these systems, which takes ca...