Ebook: Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

The origins of this book arise from the highly successful second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue that was held in September 2001 in con­ junction with Eurospeech 2001. The original workshop proceedings consisted of 29 papers selected from 57 submissions, an exceptionally high number of submissions for a two day workshop. This book includes extended versions of 12 papers originally presented at the workshop. In addition, 4 other invited papers on major themes in discourse and dialogue research are included. There are three main themes addressed by the papers in this collection: (1) corpus annotation and analysis; (2) method­ ologies for construction of dialogue systems; and (3) perspectives on various key theoretical issues including communicative intention, context-based gen­ eration, and modeling of discourse structure. However, because of the very nature of discourse and dialogue research that often requires researchers to tackle several issues in one piece of work, we have chosen to order the papers alphabetically by author rather than try to create artificial thematic sections. We believe this collection provides a concise yet reasonably comprehensive snapshot of major research themes in discourse and dialogue. We hope that readers will benefit greatly from this collection.

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This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure.
In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2^nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue.

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This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure.
In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2^nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus....Pages 1-18
Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural Spoken Interfaces....Pages 19-34
An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity....Pages 35-62
Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving....Pages 63-84
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory....Pages 85-112
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human-Computer Dialogue....Pages 113-131
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues....Pages 133-159
Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue....Pages 161-181
Disentangling Public from Non-Public Meaning....Pages 183-211
Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System....Pages 213-234
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue....Pages 235-255
Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing....Pages 257-281
Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory....Pages 283-303
Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure....Pages 305-323
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management....Pages 325-353
Visualizing Spoken Discourse....Pages 355-381

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This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure.
In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2^nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus....Pages 1-18
Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural Spoken Interfaces....Pages 19-34
An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity....Pages 35-62
Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving....Pages 63-84
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory....Pages 85-112
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human-Computer Dialogue....Pages 113-131
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues....Pages 133-159
Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue....Pages 161-181
Disentangling Public from Non-Public Meaning....Pages 183-211
Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System....Pages 213-234
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue....Pages 235-255
Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing....Pages 257-281
Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory....Pages 283-303
Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure....Pages 305-323
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management....Pages 325-353
Visualizing Spoken Discourse....Pages 355-381
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