The paper discusses utterance planning in information-seeking dialogues and advocates a view of gradual speci cation of the communicative goal. In Constructive Dialogue Management, the set of beliefs that is intended to be communicated to the user is re ned with regard to communicative principles so that the utterance is relevant and appropriate in the context. Communicative principles describe...

Anomia (word-finding difficulties) is the hallmark of aphasia, an acquired language disorder most commonly caused by stroke. Assessment speech performance using picture naming tasks a key method for both diagnosis and monitoring responses to treatment interventions people with aphasia (PWA). Currently, this assessment conducted manually therapists (SLT). Surprisingly, despite advancements in au...

This paper presents a keyword spotting method based on searching a syllable lattice structure. The Mandarin syllables are represented in initial-final models. By one-stage dynamic programming, an utterance is converted into a sequence of topN-candidate syllables. It comes out a syllable lattice structure for this input utterance. A vocabulary of predefined keywords is represented as a set of sy...

The current paper presents novel methods for collecting MISC data and accurately assessing reliability of behavior codes at the level of the utterance. The MISC 2.1 was used to rate MI interviews from five randomized trials targeting alcohol and drug use. Sessions were coded at the utterance-level. Utterance-based coding reliability was estimated using three methods and compared to traditional ...