an Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), held a meeting on clinical trial results reporting in Ottawa. The meeting was called PROCTOR, an acronym for the Public Reporting Of Clinical Trials Outcomes and Results. The current system of reporting trial results requires change. Not all trials get reported and even those that do are often incompletely reported. The growing capacity of technology off...

In this demonstration, we present POSSDM (POSTECH Situation based Dialogue Manager) for a spoken dialogue system using a new example and situation based dialogue management techniques for effective generation of appropriate system responses. Spoken dialogue system should generate cooperative responses to smoothly lead the dialogue with users. We introduce a new dialogue management technique inc...

This paper introduces a new approach to human-machine dialogue. This approach is based on the idea that dialogue can be seen as a form of knowledge base editing. In a dialogue, it is the dialogue history which is being edited. We propose some constraints on editing dialogue histories which distinguish dialogue from knowledge base editing in general. We claim that our proposal yields both intere...

Dialogue acts model the intent underlying dialogue moves. In natural language tutorial dialogue, student dialogue moves hold important information about knowledge and goals, and are therefore an integral part of providing adaptive tutoring. Automatically classifying these dialogue acts is a challenging task, traditionally addressed with supervised classification techniques requiring substantial...