We introduce an architecture and toolkit for building dialogue managers currently being
developed in the TRINDI project, based on the notions of information state and dialogue …

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 …

We propose a method for learning dialogue management policies from a fixed data set. The
method addresses the challenges posed by Information State Update (ISU)-based dialogue …

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

This article examines some of the issues in representation of, processing, and automated
agent participation in natural language dialogue, considering expansion from two-party …

This chapter forms the introduction to the thesis. In the first half of the chapter we give
examples of dialogue systems, introduce the dialogue types of inquiry and transaction, and …

Ellen Rose seeks to initiate a much-needed discussion about what reflection is and should
be. The word crops up repeatedly in the discourse of teaching and learning, but its meaning …

This paper accompanies a demo of the GoDiS system. Work on~ hi~ system was reported at
IJCAI-99 (Bohlin et-al.~ 1999). GoDiS is a prototype dialogue system for information-seeking …

Reinforcement learning gives a way to learn under what circumstances to perform which
actions. However, this approach lacks a formal framework for specifying hand-crafted …

We discuss the dialogue modelling techniques in the ongoing development of a dialogue
system for multi-modal conversations with autonomous mobile robots. The dialogue system …