Let G be a tree and let H be a collection of subgraphs of G, each having at most d connected components. Let (H) denote the maximum number of members of H no two of which share a ...
Human dialogue is so complex that definitively analysing patterns of conversation may well be impossible. Within a conversation, all the complexities and ambiguities of natural la...
Conversing on cell phones while driving is a risky, yet commonplace activity. State legislatures in the U.S. have enacted rules that limit hand-held phone conversations while driv...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ella ...
In this paper we present a fairly complex example of how the social model for agent conversations based on social commitments we have developed in the past formally supports the im...
To identify important utterances from open-domain spontaneous conversations, previous work has focused on using textual features that are extracted from transcripts, e.g., word fr...