Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E. A learning approach to natural language understanding, NATO-ASI, New Advances & Trends in Speech Recognition and Coding, Springer-Verlag, Bubion (Granada), Spain, 1993.

Ye-Yi Wang. A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding. In Proceedings of Eurospeech 99.
 

L.M. Tomokiyo, M. Gavaldà, Y. Seo, B. Suhm, W. Ward, and A. Waibel. Parsing Real Input in JANUS: A Concept Based Approach. Proceedings of TMI 95, 1995.

Additional reading

José Colás, Javier Ferreiros, Juan Manuel Montero, Julio Pastor, Ascensión Gallardo, José Manuel Pardo. On The Limitations of Stochastic Conceptual Finite-State Language Models For Speech Understanding. In Proceedings of ICSLP98.
 

Philip J. Hayes and D. Raj Reddy. Steps toward graceful interaction in spoken and written man-machine communication. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 19, 231-284, 1983.
 
 

Nigel Ward and Wataru Tsukahara. A responsive dialog system (local mirror of ASCII file). To appear in Machine Conversations (provisional title). (edited by) Yorick Wilks. Springer Verlag, to appear.

Hirasawa, J-I Miyazaki, N Nakano, M Kawabata, T, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, JAPAN. Implementation of Coordinative Nodding Behavior on Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of ICSLP, 1998.

Gregory Aist. Expanding a time-sensitive conversational architecture for turn-taking to handle content-driven interruption (PDF). (MS Word) In Proceedings of ICSLP, 1998.

Papers for discussion:

1) David R. Traum. Computational Models of Grounding in Collaborative Systems, in working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication, p. 124-131, November 5-7, 1999.

2) Tim Paek & Eric Horvitz. Uncertainty, Utility, and Misunderstanding: A Decision-Theoretic Perspective on Grounding in Conversational Systems, in working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication, p. 85-92, November 5-7, 1999.

3) Peter Heeman, Michael Johnston, Justin Denney and Edward Kaiser. Beyond Structured Dialogues: Factoring Out Grounding, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98) Sydney, Australia, December 1998, p. 863-866.

Background on Herbert Clark's ideas (optional reading):

4) Clark, H.H. & Brennan, S.A. 1991. Grounding in communication. In Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition, 127-149. APA Books.

Copies of this paper are available at the LTI front desk. Please do not take the last copy.
 
 

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K. A. Papineni, S. Roukos, R. T. Ward. Free-flow Dialog Management Using Forms. In Proceedings of Eurospeech99.

Ute Ehrlich. Task Hierarchies Representing Sub-Dialogs in Speech Dialog Systems. In Proceedings of Eurospeech99.

Esther Levin, Roberto Pieraccini, Wieland Eckert. Using Markov Decision Process for Learning Dialogue Strategies. In Proceedings of ICASSP98.

Additional references:

Roberto Pieraccini, Esther Levin, Wieland Eckert. AMICA: the AT&T Mixed Initiative Conversational Architecture. In Proceedings of Eurospeech97.

Esther Levin and Roberto Pieraccini. A Stochastic Model of Computer-Human Interaction for Learning Dialogue Strategies. In Proceedings of Eurospeech97.
 
 

Jennifer Chu-Carroll. A Statistical Model for Discourse Act Recognition in Dialogue Interactions. Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, pages 12-17, 1998.

Peter A. Heeman, Donna Byron and James F. Allen. Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog. In AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, March 1998, pages 44-51.

Norbert Reithinger and Martin Klesen. Dialog act classification using language models. In Proceedings of Eurospeech. 1997.

A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, R. Bates, N. Coccaro, D. Jurafsky, R. Martin, M. Meteer, K. Ries, P. Taylor, and C. Van Ess-Dykema. Dialog Act Modeling for Conversational Speech. In Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing (1998).

Lambert, Lynn and Sandra Carberry. A Tripartite Plan-Based Model of Dialogue. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 47-54, Newark, Delaware, 1991.

Carberry, Sandra and Lynn Lambert. A Process Model for Recognizing Communicative Acts and Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues. Computational Linguistics, 25(1), pp. 1-53, 1999.

Additional reference paper:

Lambert, Lynn and Sandra Carberry. Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 193-200, Newark, Delaware, 1992.
 
 

Diane Litman and James Allen. A Plan Recognition Model for Subdialogues in Conversation. Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, 1987.

Copies will be available in WeH 5302 and LTI front desk.

Neal Lesh, Charles Rich, and Candace L. Sidner. Using Plan Recognition in Human-Coomputer Collaboration. Lotus Technical Report 98-14. 1998.

Go to http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/research and navigate: --> People --> Candy Sidner
 
 

Below are the readings I will present tomorrow. Please read them and be prepaed to talk about their contents. I will gloss the papers to remind us what was in them. The theme of this set of papers  is dialog systems and the different ways people have approached their implementation.

You might consider where the dividing line lies between dialog systems and what at some point have been described as 'spoken language systems'. What is it about dialog that makes it different? Or, at least, makes people want to draw such distinctions?

Complete systems also require the integration of different technologies (ASR, parsing, generation, etc.) How do these choices affect each other?
 
 

Nicole Yankelovich, Gina-Anne Levow, Matt Marx Designing SpeechActs: Issues in Speech User Interfaces  CHI '95 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995. SMLI 94-0394.

Constantinides, P., Hansma, S., Tchou, C. and Rudnicky, A. A schema-based approach to dialog control. Proceedings of ICSLP. 1998, Paper 637.

J. Glass and T.J. Hazen. Telephone-Based Conversational Speech Recognition in the Jupiter Domain. Proc. ICSLP 98, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.

James F. Allen, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringger, and Teresa Sikorski. A Robust System for Natural Spoken Dialogue. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'96), June 1996. pp. 62-70. Paper in gzip'ed PostScript format (59K)