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 …

Effective conversation requires common ground: a shared understanding between the
participants. Common ground, however, does not emerge spontaneously in conversation …

Background: Nonverbal communication is a critical feature of successful social interaction
and interpersonal rapport. Social exclusion is a feature of schizophrenia. This experimental …

The past decade has seen a revolution in the field of spoken dialogue systems. As in other
areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, data-driven methods are now being …

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 …

This chapter illustrates intrinsic problems for frameworks such as possible worlds semantics
and typed‐feature structure (TFS)‐based approaches. It begins with a discussion on the …

Clarification requests are an important, relatively common and yet under-studied dialogue
device allowing a user to ask about some feature (eg the meaning or form) of an utterance …

The interactive-alignment model of dialogue provides an account of dialogue at the level of
explanation normally associated with cognitive psychology. We develop our claim that …

We present a classification-scheme for describing the form (including intonation) and
function of clarification requests (CRs) that is more fine-grained than extant classifications …

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map
user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural …