TOWARD TRANSFORMATIVE DIALOGUE

From Disordering Discourse to Transformative Dialogue

Toward Domain-Independent Dialogue Planning

While the development of techniques that allow artificial agents to engage in dialogue with humans has received a lot of interest in the multiagent systems and natural language processing literature, most of the systems created to date have focused on specific domains and types of dialogue. This has led to agent designs that are useful for specific dialogue situations, but hard to adapt to diff...

Teaching with Soul: Toward a Spiritually Responsive Transformative Pedagogy

The transformative dimensions of adult learning emphasize processes of fundamental change occurring both within the learners themselves and with their relationships with the broader world. In this paper, we conceptualize this process as inherently spiritual and discuss its implications for a spirituallyinformed transformative education grounded in the work of soul. Studies on transformative lea...

Toward a Large Spontaneous Mandarin Dialogue Corpus

This paper addresses recent results on Mandarin spoken dialogues and introduces the collection of a large Mandarin conversational dialogue corpus. In the context of data processing, principles of transcription are proposed and accordingly a transcription tool is specifically developed for Mandarin spoken conversations.

Toward Habitable Assistance from Spoken Dialogue Systems

Spoken dialogue is increasingly central to systems that assist people. As the tasks that people and machines speak about together become more complex, however, users’ dissatisfaction with those systems is an important concern. This paper presents a novel approach to learning for spoken dialogue systems. It describes embedded wizardry, a methodology for learning from skilled people, and applies ...