This paper presents an overview of methods that can be used to collect and analyse data on
user responses to spoken dialogue system components intended to increase human …

ABSTRACT A general overview of the AdApt project and the research that is performed
within the project is presented. In this project various aspects of human-computer interaction …

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 …

In this paper, we discuss an adaptive method of handling fragmented user utterances to a
speech-based multimodal dialogue system. Inserted silent pauses between fragments …

A syntax tree or standard semantic representation can be represented as a set of indexed
constraints. This paper describes how this idea can be used in task oriented dialogue sys …

This article introduces natural language interaction (NLI) systems. NLI systems are systems
that allow their users to formulate requests in spoken or written natural language. This article …

We present and evaluate a robust method for the interpretation of spoken input to a
conversational computer game. The scenario of the game is that of a player interacting with …

In spoken dialogue applications dialogue management has conventionally been realized
with a single monolithic dialogue manager implementing a comprehensive dialogue control …

Much of the human-machine dialogue research in the literature tacitly assumes a
“synchronous” dialogue model; user talks, system acts, system replies. In particular, the user …

In the group of people with whom I have worked most closely, we recently attempted to dress
our visionary goal in words:“to learn enough about human face-to-face interaction that we …