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...

Instant messaging dialogue is real-time, text-based computer-mediated communication conducted over the Internet. Messages sent over instant messaging can be encoded We propose a method of using dialogue acts to predict utterances in taskoriented dialogue. Dialogue acts provide a semantic representation of utterances in a dialogue. An evaluation using a dialogue simulation program shows that our...

thought-based and wisdom-centered actions have always made different civilizations and cultures closer together. these actions need continuous and stable trends. remaining fixed in a changing world inflicts severe damages on the society and culture. in this regard, the dialogue among civilizations can open many new ways which were non-existent or hardly achievable in the past. meanwhile, the di...

arguments for the recognition of cultural diversity have led to a fundamental question in political theory: on what basis the process of political decision making should be formed to accommodate cultural diversity as a permanent feature of contemporary societies? the aim of this paper is to examine whether 'dialogue' can be employed as a means in such a process. the first section of this paper...

Automatically detecting dialogue structure within corpora of human-human dialogue is the subject of increasing attention. In the domain of tutorial dialogue, automatic discovery of dialogue structure is of particular interest because these structures inherently represent tutorial strategies or modes, the study of which is key to the design of intelligent tutoring systems that communicate with l...

This report is about the state of the art in dialogue management. We first introduce an overview of a multimodal dialogue system and its components. Second, four main approaches to dialogue management are described (finite-state and frame-based, information-state based and probabilistic, plan-based, and collaborative agent-based approaches). Finally, the dialogue management in the recent dialog...

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 is implemented using Nuance, Gemini, and Festival language technologies under the Open Agent Architecture. This paper focusses on our general-purpose dialogue manager which implements a dynamic information state model of di...

In this paper, we present a statistical approach for dialogue act processing in the dialogue component of the speech-to-speech translation system VERBMOBIL. Statistics in dialogue processing is used to predict follow-up dialogue acts. As an application example we show how it supports repair when unexpected dialogue states occur.

We describe a statistical approach for modeling dialogue acts in conversational speech, i.e., speechact-like units such as STATEMENT,QUESTION, BACKCHANNEL,AGREEMENT, DISAGREEMENT, and APOLOGY. Our model detects and predicts dialogue acts based on lexical, collocational, and prosodic cues, as well as on the discourse coherence of the dialogue act sequence. The dialogue model is based on treating...