We address appropriate user modeling in order to generate cooperative responses to each user in spoken dialogue systems. Unlike previous studies that focus on user’s knowledge o...
The paper describes the design of a generation component for a spoken dialogue system. After discussing three existing models of generation, a model based on new information focus...
Identifying effective tutorial dialogue strategies is a key issue for intelligent tutoring systems research. Human-human tutoring offers a valuable model for identifying effective ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Amy Ingra...
Analogy is heavily used in instructional texts. We introduce the concept of analogical dialogue acts (ADAs), which represent the roles utterances play in instructional analogies. ...
We present a data-driven approach to learn user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. Referring expressions can be difficult to unde...