Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

Abstract

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus.- Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural Spoken Interfaces.- An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity.- Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving.- Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory.- An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human Computer Dialogue.- Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues.- Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue.- Disentangling Public from non-public Meaning.- Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System.- On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue.- Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing.- Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory.- Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure.- The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management.- Visualizing Spoken Discourse.- References.- Appendix.