Opening the learner model is a process involving the learner as a collaborator in building a model of his beliefs. The interaction plays a crucial role here since it provides both the system and the learner with a medium to reflect on the learner’s beliefs. In this paper we describe a computational framework for the interactive maintenance of open learner models. It adopts some approaches from ...

Words used by a human while framing a response during the interaction with a software agent like spoken dialogue system(SDS) has valuable information as regards internal mental state of the user is concerned. The users level of certainty about a response could be judged by the prosody information structure. Prosody reveals Information about the context by highlighting information structure and ...

In this paper, we discuss the use of Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs’ model of collaboration (1986) and Clark and Schaefer’s model of contributions (1989) in using structured models of dialogue. Rather than completely specifying the behavior of a dialogue system by a structured dialogue model, we advocate that the dialogue structure should only specify the behavior of the system with respect to high-lev...

In this paper, the need for interfaith dialogue in the contemporary world has been emphasized in the light of the rise of ISIS and other takfiri movements. This necessity has been understood both by political and religious authorities in the Shiite world and by Christian religious authorities. It will be shown that the central message of all Abrahamic religions is theism; that is, the ...

Usually, human-computer dialogue systems rely on ad-hoc solutions for the component performing speech turn generation, in natural language. However, integration of taskspecific and general world knowledge in order to provide a more reliable and natural interaction with humans also through more sophisticated language generation techniques becomes needed. In this paper we present performance impr...

This article is about the institutional collaboration in the management structure of a city-region. To achieve this purpose, corporate limits of Qazvin are studied as the city is becoming a region.  The possible institutional cooperative in the centralist governmental structure is planned based on the new regionalism theory and its governance pattern, new institutionalism theory and its emphas...

We have constructed the discourse component for a multimodal user-interface dialogue system. The larger system acts as a conversational agent engaged in dialogue with the human user. Output originating with the backend application system can take the eventual form of spoken English utterances, printed English text, or changes in the graphical display screen, e.g., appearance, disappearance, mov...

According to argumentation theory, reasoning takes place in different types of dialogue: persuasion dialogue, negotiation, deliberation, information-seeking dialogue, inquiry, and eristic dialogue. These different dialogue types may be nested within one another. Current research in artificial intelligence is building formal models corresponding to each of these types of dialogue and showing how...

We present a development pipeline and associated algorithms designed to make grammarbased generation easier to deploy in implemented dialogue systems. Our approach realizes a practical trade-off between the capabilities of a system’s generation component and the authoring and maintenance burdens imposed on the generation content author for a deployed system. To evaluate our approach, we perform...

Reporting on an unusual research approach of heuristic inquiry, I use a conversational writing style to describe a five year project investigating technicism and discourse in a failed teaching reform of a university information systems course. The reform failed because I acted unethically due to my underlying technicist agendas As part of the self dialogue component of heuristic research I cond...