Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the field of open-domain dialogue.
Thanks to the rapid development of social media, large dialogue corpus from the Internet …

This book addresses the problems of spoken dialogue system design and especially
automatic learning of optimal strategies for man-machine dialogues. Besides the description …

Computational pragmatics and dialogue analysis is currently a rapid growing area of
research in computational linguistics. Over the past five years or so, initiatives in modelling …

Informal logic (IL) is an area of philosophy rich in models of communication and discourse
with a heavy focus on argument and 'dialogue games'. Computational dialectics is a …

A lot of work remains to be done in the domain of a better integration of speech recognition
and language processing systems. This paper gives an overview of several strategies for …

Le dialogue, en tant que forme particulière de discours, est un sujet abordé par un large
éventail de disciplines. Notre travail commence par présenter la manière dont chacune de …

The paper proposes a method of social tension detection and intention recognition based on
natural language analysis of social networks, forums, blogs and news comments. Our …

We present an integrated authoring tool for rapid prototyping of dialogue systems for virtual
humans taking part in tactical questioning simulations. The tool helps domain experts, who …

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a multimodal interactive guidance
system for the elderly for the use in hospital environments, which combined common design …

A common assumption in the study of conversation is that participants fully cooperate in
order to maximise the effectiveness of the exchange and ensure communication flow. This …