Dialogue Games, HT98

Plan

	Date	Time	Subject	Litterature
1	1/10	15-17	Dialogue Games	Severinsson, (Sinclair & Coulthard)
2	15/10	15-17	Dialogue Games	Hamblin
3	29/10	15-17	Formalizing Speech Acts; Grounding	Traum (1994) ch. 1-3, (Cohen & Perrault)
4	12/11	15-17	Formalizing Speech Acts; Grounding	Traum (1994) ch. 4-
5	10/12	15-17	Dialogue Games	Carlson
6	17/12	15-17	Questions Under Discussion	Ginzburg, Roberts
7	?	15-17	Questions Under Discussion & Dialogue Moves	?

Literature

Dialogue games

• Bellack, Arno A. et. al. (1966): The language of the classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Carlson, Lauri (1983): Dialogue Games: An Approach to Discourse Analysis. Reidel.
• Dahl, Östen (1977): Games and Models. In Dahl, Östen (ed.) (1977): Logic, Pragmatics and Grammar. Studentlitteratur.
• Hamblin (1971): Mathematical Models of Dialogue. Theoria 37 (1971).
• Levin, J. A. and J. A. Moore (1977): Dialogue games: Metacommunication structures for natural language interaction. Cognitive Science 1(4), 395-420.
• Houghton, G. (1986): The Production of Language in Dialogue: A Computational Model. Ph. D. thesis, University of Sussex.
• Kowtko, J. , Isard, S. , Doherty, G. M. (1993): Conversational Games Within Dialogue, Research Paper HCRC/RP-31, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.
• Power, R. J. D (1979): The organisation of purposeful dialogues. Linguistics 17, 107-152.
• Severinson, Kerstin (1983): The Notion of Language Game - A Natural Unit of Dialogue and Disocurse. SICS 5, University of Linköping.
• Sinclair, J. M. and R. M. Coulthard (1975): Towards an Analysis of Discourse: The English used by teacher and pupils. Oxford University Press.
• Wittgenstein, L. (1958): Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.

Formalizing speech acts: early work

• Allen, James F. and C. R. Perrault (1980): Analyzing intention in utterances. Artificial Intelligence, 15(3):143--178.
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• Cohen, P. R. and Perrault, C. R. (1979). Elements of a plan based theory of speech acts. Cognitive Science, 3:177-212.

Formalizing speech acts: extensions & later work

• Carberry, Sandra (1991): Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue. MIT Press.
• Litman, Diane and James F. Allen (1987): A plan recognition model for subdialogues in conversation. Cognitive Science, 11:163--200, 1987.
• Moore, Joanna D. (1998): Participating in Explanatory Dialogues : Interpreting and Responding to Questions in Context. Acl-Mit Press Series in Natural Language Processing.
• Poesio, M. and Traum, D. (1997): Representing Conversation Acts in a Unified Semantic/Pragmatic Framework.

Grounding

• Clark, H. and E. Schaefer, ``Contributing to Discourse,'' Cognitive Science, 13:259--294, 1989.
• Traum, D. R. (1994): A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. To appear as a Technical Report.

Questions under discussion

• Ginzburg, J. (1996b): Interrogatives: Questions, Facts and Dialogue, in The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, ed. by Shalom Lappin, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Ginzburg, J. (1997): Resolving Questions I & II. Linguistics and Philosophy 17 & 18.
• Roberts, Craige (1996): Information Structure in Discourse, Papers in Semantics, Ohio State Working Papers in Linguistics, no 49, pp.43-70.
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Dialogue Agents

• Traum, D. R. (1996): A Reactive-Deliberative Model of Dialogue Agency. To be presented at The Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ECAI-96), August, 1996.
• Traum, D. R. (1996): Conversational Agency: The Trains-93 Dialogue Manager. In proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 11:Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, pages 1-11, June 1996.
• Wooldridge, M. (1995): Intellegent Agents: Theory and Practice. In Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(2), June 1995.

Focus in dialogue

• Vallduvi, Enric: The Dynamics of Information Packaging
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Empirical approaches

• Arne Jönsson (1993): Dialogue Management for Natural Language Interfaces - An Empiricial Approach. PhD Thesis, No 312, Liköping Studies in Science and Technology.

Dialogue systems

• Traum, D. R. (1993): Mental State in the TRAINS-92 Dialogue Manager. Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Applications, pp. 143--149, March 1993.
• Allen, J. et al (1995): The TRAINS Project: A case study in building a conversational planning agent. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, to appear.
• Lewin, I., M. Russell, D. Carter, S. Browning, K. Ponting and S. G. Pulman (1993): A Speech-Based Route Enquiry System Built from General Purpose Components, in EUROSPEECH 93, Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Berlin, 2047-2050.