Cooperative Response Generation in Dialogue

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová

Schedule (tbc)

20.10.2009: Introduction

Slides: [PDF]

28.10.2009

Session had to be cancelled

4.11.2009: Introduction (cont'd), scheduling

NEW TIME: 14 - 16

Michael F McTear (2002) Spoken dialogue technology: enabling the conversational interface. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 34 , Issue 1 (March 2002), pp. 90 - 169. PDF

Jurafsky, Daniel, and James H. Martin. 2000. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, and Computational Linguistics. 1st edition. Prentice-Hall. Chapter 19 (Dialogue and Conversational Agents).

18.11.2009: Initiative in answer generation

Presenter: Irina Borisova
Slides:

Paper(s)

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. Interpreting and Generating Indirect Answers. Computational Linguistics, 25(3), pp. 389-435, 1999. PDF

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. A Computational Mechanism for Initiative in Answer Generation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 9(1-2), pp. 93-132, 1999.

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Scott Grimm and Christopher Potts. 2009. "Not a simple yes or no: Uncertainty in indirect answers." Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. PDF

25.11.2009: Conflict resolution and expression of doubt

Presenter: Irina Borisova
Slides:

Paper(s)

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Collaborative Response Generation in Planning Dialogues. Computational Linguistics 24(3), pp. 355-400, 1998. PDF

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Conflict Resolution in Collaborative Planning Dialogues. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(6) pp.969-1015, 2000.

Sandra Carberry, Lynn Lambert, and Leah Schroeder. Toward Recognizing and Conveying an Attitude of Doubt Via Natural Language. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 16(7), pp. 495-517, 2002. PS

Paper(s)

2.12.2009: Utterance planning and generation

Presenter: Markus Draeger
Slides:

Paper(s)

Stent, A. and Molina, M. (2009). Evaluating automatic extraction of rules for sentence plan construction. In Proceedings of SIGdial. PDF

Stent, A., Prasad, R. and Walker, M. (2004). Trainable sentence planning for complex information presentations in spoken dialog systems. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). PDF

Walker, M., Stent, A., Mairesse, F. & Prasad, R. (2007). Individual and domain adaptation in sentence planning for dialogue. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 30, 413-456. PDF

9.12.2009: Non-understanding and recovery

NOTE unusual location: phonetics studio 5.09
Presenter: Kang Ji
Slides:

Paper(s)

Bohus, D., and Rudnicky, A. (2005) - Sorry, I Didn't Catch That! - An Investigation of Non-understanding Errors and Recovery Strategies, in SIGdial-2005, Lisbon, Portugal PDF

Bohus, D., Langner, B., Raux, A., Black, A., Eskenazi, M. and Rudnicky A. (2006) - Online Supervised Learning of Non-understanding Recovery Policies, in SLT-2006, Palm Beach, Aruba. PDF

Let's Go dialogue system

Monday 14.12.2009 at 14:00: User tailoring

Note unusual day and time!
(but the usual location: Aquarium)

Presenter: Olga Nikitina
Slides:

Paper(s)

Marilyn Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, G. Vasireddy. Generation and Evaluation of User Tailored Responses in Multimodal Dialogue. In Cognitive Science, Vol 28., Issue 5, September-October 2004, Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Aravind K. Joshi, pp. 811-840, 2004. PDF

Vera Demberg and Johanna D. Moore, Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2006. PDF

6.1.2010: Personality generation

Presenter: Markus Draeger
Slides:

Paper(s)

Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. Can Conversational Agents Express Big Five Personality Traits through Language?: Evaluating a Psychologically-Informed Language Generator. In Submission. July 2008. PDF

Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker (2007). PERSONAGE: Personsonality Generation for Dialogue. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, June 2007. PDF

Walker, M., Stent, A., Mairesse, F. & Prasad, R. (2007). Individual and domain adaptation in sentence planning for dialogue. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 30, 413-456. PDF

Demo link

13.1.2010: Referring expression generation

Presenter: Olga Nikitina
Slides:

Paper(s)

Foster, M.E. Bard, E.G., Hill, R.L., Guhe, M., Oberlander, J. and Knoll, A. [2008] The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp295-302. Amsterdam, March 12-15, 2008 PDF

Foster, M.E., Giuliani, M., Isard, A., Matheson, C., Oberlander, J. and Knoll, A. [2009] Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), pp1818--1823. Pasadena, California, July 2009. PDF or another URL: PDF

Fabbrizio, G. D., Stent, A. and Bangalore, S. (2008a). Referring expression generation using speaker-based attribute selection and trainable realization (ATT-REG). In Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference PDF

20.1.2010: Generating locating gestures

Presenter: Kang Ji
Slides:

Paper(s)

Striegnitz, Kristina, Tepper, Paul, Lovett, Andrew, and Cassell, Justine (2005) "Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions" . In Proceedings of Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space). October 23-25, 2005; Delmenhorst, Germany PDF

Striegnitz, K., Tepper, P., Lovett, A. and Cassell, J. (in press) "Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions" In K.R. Coventry, T. Tenbrink and J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (Explorations in Language and Space). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

More technical detail in:

Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul and Cassell, Justine. (2004). "Towards Integrated Microplanning of Language and Iconic Gesture for Multimodal Output." Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2004. Oct. 14-15, Penn State University, State College, PA. [PDF] PDF

Tepper, P., Kopp, S., Cassell, J. (2004) "Content in Context: Generating Language and Iconic Gesture without a Gestionary" Proceedings of the Workshop on Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs at AAMAS '04. PDF

27.1.2010: Context-dependent intonation production

Presenter: Pia Mennig
Slides:

Paper(s)

Johanna D. Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, and Michael White, Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue, in Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Sociey Conference, AAAI Press, 2004. PDF

Some evaluation in:
Rachel Baker, Robert A. J. Clark, and Michael White. 2004. Synthesising Contextually Appropriate Intonation in Limited Domains. In Proc. of the 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop. PDF

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Stina Ericsson, Kepa J. Rodriguez, Elena Karagjosova (2003). Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation in an Information-State Based Dialogue System. EACL-2003.

Skantze, G., House, D., & Edlund, J. (2006). User responses to prosodic variation in fragmentary grounding utterances in dialogue. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP (pp. 2002-2005). Pittsburgh PA, USA. PDF

Wallers, A., Edlund, J., & Skantze, G. (2006). The effects of prosodic features on the interpretation of synthesised backchannels. In Andre, E., Dybkjaer, L., Minker, W., Neumann, H., & Weber, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of Perception and Interactive Technologies (pp. 183-187). Springer. PDF

3.2.2010: Tutoring

Presenter: Pia Mennig
Slides:

Two overview paper(s) on AutoTutor:

Graesser, A.C., Lu, S., Jackson, G.T., Mitchell, H., Ventura, M., Olney, A., and Louwerse, M.M. (2004). AutoTutor: A tutor with dialogue in natural language. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36, 180-193. PDF

Graesser, A.C., person N.K., Harter D. and The Turing Research Group. (2001, to appear). Teaching Tactics and Dialog in AutoTutor. In IJAIED 12 (3): Special Issue on Modelling Teaching. PDF

(the presentation should elaborate on output production and evaluation)