Research Dialogue

Forum: dialogue about dialogue—cogeneration, research and science education

This forum discussion focuses on seven themes drawn from Sonya’’s fascinating paper: the terminology of ‘‘cogenerative dialogues,’’ the roles of participants and their power relations within such dialogues, the use of metaphor and analogy in the paper, science and science education for all students, the ways in which students’’ expectations about learning change in innovative classrooms, teache...

8. Dialogue 8.2 Basic Notions in Dialogue Research

Research on dialogue deals with the study of language as it is used in conversation. Dialogue is a multi-agent activity and this makes conversational language markedly different from the kind of language found in texts. This chapter introduces the main phenomena that characterise language in dialogue interaction — including disfluencies, dialogue acts, alignment, grounding, and turn-taking — an...

Seeking an International Dialogue on Research Integrity

Scientific misconduct is a global problem, yet protocols for addressing it remain highly fragmented and uneven. A conference held last month in Lisbon aimed to encourage international efforts to promote research integrity and to prevent misconduct.

An enhanced BLSTIP dialogue research platform

This paper presents some recent enhancement to Bell Labs Speech Technology Integration Platform (BLSTIP), a common platform to integrate Bell Lab’s speech, telephony, Internet, and dialogue technologies for spoken and multi-modal dialogue system research and prototyping. Last year, we introduced BLSTIP to our partners as a speech technology platform for collaborative research and new applicatio...

Speech synthesis in spoken dialogue research