Dialogue system seminars, HT99-VT00

These seminars will be in part a preparation for the course on dialogue systems which will be given in the spring of 2000, and in part an opportunity to discuss some papers that we haven't had time for in the seminars on Dialogue Games and Agents and Dialogue.

Preliminary plan

  Date Time Subject Litterature
1 14/10 15-17 Planning and plan recognition in dialogue Pollack 1990, Grosz & Sidner 1990
3 11/11 15-17 Spoken Natural Language Dialogue Systems: A Practical Approach Smith & Hipp (1994), ch. 1-2
4 25/11 15-17 Spoken Natural Language Dialogue Systems: A Practical Approach Smith & Hipp (1994), ch. 3-4
5 ***16/12*** ***13-15*** Agents in Prolog Poole et. al., Kim & Kowalski
6 13/1 15-17 to be determined
7 27/1 15-17 to be determined
... ... 15-17 ...



Still left over:


Place: F304 ("Akvariet").

Literature will be available from Staffan, F317.

Contact: cooper@ling.gu.se or sl@ling.gu.se

Litteraturlista

  • 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.
  • Allen, J.F., B. Miller, E. Ringger and T. Sikorski (1996): A Robust System for Natural Spoken Dialogue, Proc. 34th Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 1996.
  • Peter Bohlin, Robin Cooper, Elisabeth Engdahl and Staffan Larsson (1999): Information States and Dialogue Move Engines. In Alexandersson, Jan (ed) (1999): IJCAI-99 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems.
  • Sandra Carberry and Lynn Lambert (1999): A Process Model for Recognizing Communicative Acts and Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues. Computational Linguistics Volume 25, Issue 1, March 1999.
  • M. Georgeff, B. Pell, M. E. Pollack, M. Tambe, and M. Wooldridge (1998): The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency. To appear in N. Jenning, J. Muller, and M. Wooldridge, Intelligent Agents V, Springer Publishers, 1998.
  • B. Grosz and C. Sidner (1986): Attentions, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 12(3):175-204, 1986.
  • B. Grosz and C. Sidner (1990): Plans for discourse. In Intentions In Communication, Cambridge, MA, 1990. MIT Press.
  • Arne Jönsson (1993): Dialogue Management for Natural Language Interfaces - An Empiricial Approach. PhD Thesis, No 312, Liköping Studies in Science and Technology.
  • Kim, J. S., and Kowalski, R. A. (1990?): An Application of Amalgamated Logic to Multi-Agent Belief. In Proceedings of Mete90.
  • 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.
  • Karen E. Lochbaum (1998): A Collaborative Planning Model of Intentional Structure. Computational Linguistics, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 1998.
  • Litman, Diane and James F. Allen (1990): Discourse Processing and Commonsense Plans. In P.R. Cohen, J. Morgan, and M.E. Pollack (eds): Intentions in Communication, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1990.
  • S. McRoy and G. Hirst (1995): The repair of speech act misunderstandings by abductive inference. In Computational Linguistics, 21(4) 435-478, December 1995.
  • S. McRoy (1995): The need to address plan misinference during dialogues and why abduction might help. In Working notes of the IJCAI Workshop on "The Next Generation of Plan Recognition Systems: Challenges for and Insight from Related Areas of AI" Montreal, August, 1995. Information about this workshop.
  • S. McRoy (199?): Misunderstanding and the negotiation of meaning using abduction. In Knowledge-Based Systems 8(2-3).
  • G. Hirst, S, McRoy, P. Heeman, P. Edmonds, D. Horton (1994): Repairing conversational misunderstandings and non-understandings. First presented by G. Hirst as an invited talks at: The International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue, Tokyo, November 1993; and the ATR International Workshop on Speech Translation, Kyoto, November 1993. A version has also been published in Speech Communication 15 (1994), Elsevier Science Publishers.
  • S. McRoy and G. Hirst (1993): Abductive explanations of dialogue misunderstandings. In Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Utrect, 1993.
  • Pollack, M. E. (1990): Plans as Complex Mental Attitudes. In P. R. Cohen, J. Morgan, M. E. Pollack, eds., Intentions in Communication, MIT Press.
  • Reichman, Rachel (1985): Getting Computers to Talk Like You and Me - Discourse Context, Focus, and Semantics (an ATN Model). MIT Press.
  • Smith, Ronnie (1992): A Dialog Control Algorithm and its Performance (with D. Richard Hipp and Alan W. Biermann): Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, 1992, pages 9-16.
  • Smith, Ronnie W. and D. Richard Hipp (1994): Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems - A Practical Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, Ronnie (1996): Pragmatic Issues in Handling Miscommunication: Observations of a Spoken Natural Language Dialog System (with Steven A. Gordon): Proceedings of the AAAI '96 Workshop on Detecting, Repairing, and Preventing Human-Machine Miscommunication, pages 21-28.
  • Smith, Ronnie (1997):Performance Measures for the Next Generation of Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems: Proceedings of the ACL'97 Workshop on Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems, pages 37-40.
  • Smith, Ronnie (1997): An Evaluation of Strategies for Selective Utterance Verification for Spoken Natural Language Dialog: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, 1997, pages 41-48.
  • Smith, Ronnie (1997): Practical Issues in Mixed-Initiative Natural Language Dialog: An Experimental Perspective : Proceedings of the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, pages 158-162.
  • Poole, D., Mackworth, A., and Goebel, R. (19??): Computational Intelligence - a logical approach, Ch. 12: Building Situated Robots.
  • A. S. Rao and M. P. Georgeff (1992): An abstract architecture for rational agents. In C. Rich et al, eds.(1992): Proceedings of KR&R '92.
  • M. Young, J. D. Moore, and M. E. Pollack (1994): Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

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