Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted,
theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive …

The ability to convey relevant and faithful information is critical for many tasks in conditional
generation and yet remains elusive for neural seq-to-seq models whose outputs often reveal …

We introduce the information state approach to dialogue management, and show how it can
be used to formalize theories of dialogue in a manner suitable for easy implementation. We …

Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems,
ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed …

Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises
many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists …

Ever since dialogue modelling first developed relative to broadly Gricean assumptions about
utter-ance interpretation (Clark, 1996), it has remained an open question whether the full …

The paper investigates an elliptical construction, Clarification Ellipsis, that occurs in
dialogue. We suggest that this provides data that demonstrates that updates resulting from …

The DIPPER architecture is a collection of software agents for prototyping spoken dialogue
systems. Implemented on top of the Open Agent Architecture (OAA), it comprises agents for …