Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

by Van Kuppevelt, Jan; Smith, Ronnie W.

• ISBN13: 9781402016158
• ISBN10: 1402016158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus	1	(18)
Jens Allwood
Leif Gronqvist
Elisabeth Ahlsen
Magnus Gunnarsson
Introduction	1	(3)
GSLC and Other Goteborg Corpora	4	(1)
Storage	5	(1)
Description of the Corpus Transcription Standard	6	(1)
Tools Which Have Been Developed	7	(2)
Types of Quantitative Analysis	9	(2)
Types of Qualitative Analysis	11	(4)
Conclusions and Future Directions	15	(4)
References	16	(3)
Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural Spoken Interfaces	19	(16)
Hiyan Alshawi
Shona Douglas
Introduction	20	(1)
Characteristics of Direct Variant Transduction	20	(1)
Constructing an Application with Example-Action Contexts	21	(2)
Context Expansion	23	(2)
Recognition, Classification and Matching	25	(2)
Dialog Control and Confirmation	27	(3)
Experiments	30	(3)
Concluding Remarks	33	(2)
References	33	(2)
An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity	35	(28)
Niels Ole Bernsen
Laila Dybkjaer
Mykola Kolodnystsky
Introduction	35	(2)
Today's Natural Interactivity Coding Tools	37	(5)
The Nite Project	42	(1)
Nite Target User Groups	43	(1)
General Tool Requirements	44	(3)
Annotation User Interface Requirements	47	(5)
The Audio-Visual Annotation Interface	52	(8)
Conclusion and Future Work	60	(3)
Acknowledgements	61	(1)
References	61	(2)
Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving	63	(22)
Nate Blaylock
James Allen
George Ferguson
Previous Work	65	(3)
A Collaborative Problem-Solving Model	68	(7)
Examples	75	(4)
Use in Dialogue Systems	79	(2)
Conclusions and Future Work	81	(4)
References	82	(3)
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory	85	(28)
Lynn Carlson
Daniel Marcu
Mary Ellen Okurowski
Introduction	85	(1)
Framework	86	(4)
Discourse Annotation Task	90	(3)
Quality Assurance	93	(3)
Corpus Overview	96	(1)
Mining the RST Corpus	97	(11)
Conclusions and Future Work	108	(5)
Acknowledgements	109	(1)
References	110	(3)
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human Computer Dialogue	113	(20)
Marc Cavazza
Introduction	113	(3)
The Speech Recognition Component	116	(1)
Integrated Parsing of User Utterances	117	(2)
The Dialogue Process	119	(1)
From Speech Recognition Errors to Speech Act Recognition Errors	120	(6)
Evaluating Robustness to Speech Recognition Errors	126	(3)
Conclusion	129	(4)
Acknowledgements	130	(1)
References	130	(3)
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues	133	(28)
Christine Doran
John Aberdeen
Laurie Damianos
Lynette Hirschman
Introduction	133	(1)
Our Data	134	(4)
Analysis	138	(13)
Analysis of Misunderstandings	151	(4)
Discussion	155	(1)
Conclusions	156	(5)
Appendix: Dialogue Act Tag Set and Examples	156	(1)
References	157	(4)
Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue	161	(22)
Christian Ebert
Shalom Lappin
Howard Gregory
Nicolas Nicolov
Introduction	161	(3)
SHARDS	164	(4)
Generation of Fragment Paraphrases	168	(3)
An Implemented System for Fragment Resolution and Paraphrase Generation	171	(8)
Conclusion and Future Research	179	(4)
Acknowledgements	179	(1)
References	180	(3)
Disentangling Public from non-Public Meaning	183	(30)
Jonathan Ginzburg
Introduction	184	(4)
Utterer's Content v. Utterer's Plan	188	(2)
Clarifying Utterer's Content	190	(8)
Whymeta: an analysis	198	(7)
Concluding Remarks	205	(8)
References	209	(4)
Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System	213	(22)
Kristiina Jokinen
Graham Wilcock
Introduction	213	(2)
Interaction Management	215	(6)
Dialogue Response Generation	221	(6)
Confidence-based Adaptivity	227	(5)
Conclusion	232	(3)
References	232	(3)
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue	235	(22)
Matthew Purver
Jonathan Ginzburg
Patrick Healey
Introduction	235	(3)
Clarification Forms	238	(3)
Clarification Readings	241	(2)
Corpus Analysis	243	(5)
Conclusions	248	(9)
Acknowledgements	250	(1)
Appendix: Corpus Markup Decision Trees	251	(3)
References	254	(3)
Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing	257	(26)
Manny Rayner
Johan Boye
Ian Lewin
Genevieve Gorrell
Introduction	258	(3)
The CANTONA Plug and Play Demonstrator	261	(3)
Device Descriptions: Rules and Hierarchies	264	(3)
Plug and Play Response Generation	267	(4)
Plug and Play Speech Recognition and Parsing	271	(7)
Discussion	278	(5)
Acknowledgements	279	(1)
References	280	(3)
Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory	283	(22)
Robert van Rooy
Introduction	283	(1)
Particularized Conversational Implicatures	284	(9)
Generalized Conversational Implicatures	293	(12)
References	301	(4)
Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure	305	(20)
Susan E. Strayer
Peter A. Heeman
Fan Yang
Introduction	305	(2)
Discourse Structure and Control Analysis	307	(6)
Relationship between Control and Discourse Structure	313	(2)
Reconciling Control inside Discourse Segments	315	(5)
Conclusion	320	(1)
Future Work	320	(5)
Acknowledgements	321	(1)
References	322	(3)
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management	325	(30)
David R. Traum
Staffan Larsson
Introduction	325	(3)
The Information State Approach	328	(6)
A Multi-level Architecture for Reusable Dialogue Management	334	(2)
TrindiKit: A Dialogue Move Engine Toolkit	336	(3)
Implementations using TrindiKit	339	(7)
Reusing Dialogue Management Components	346	(9)
References	350	(5)
Visualizing Spoken Discourse	355	(1)
Li-Chiung Yang
Introduction: Interruptions and Dialogue	355	(1)
Research Goals and Procedures	356	(1)
Prosodic Characteristics of Interruptions	357	(18)
Implications for Dialogue Systems	375	(2)
Conclusion	377	(1)
Acknowledgements	377	(1)
References	377	(1)
Appendix	378