PURPOSE A stepwise process for planning, writing, and submitting a research manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal is described. SUMMARY The research project and writing-related activities should be conducted concurrently along a clear timeline developed with input from all members of the writing team. Issues of conformance to standards of scholarly publishing (e.g., ordering of the author lis...

We are investigating techniques for supporting autonomous dialogue in interactive story telling. That is, instead of writing a script for every possible sequence of events, we would like to develop an approach in which story characters have more autonomy in deciding what to say when. We describe our current research on applying dialogue games theory to interactive story telling. We illustrate t...

This paper shows how we can combine the art of grammar writing with the power of statistics by bootstrapping statistical language models (SLMs) for Dialogue Systems from grammars written using the Grammatical Framework (GF) (Ranta, 2004). Furthermore, to take into account that the probability of a user’s dialogue moves is not static during a dialogue we show how the same methodology can be used...