In this paper, we investigate whether the social roles of dialogue participants can be recognized through the social actions performed by the participant in their interactions with others in the group. Specifically we focus on determining if a participant is the leader of the group. We decompose the problem into identifying the social goals for participant discourse segments. These social goals...

Multimodal conversational dialogue systems consisting of numerous software components create challenges for the underlying software architecture and development practices. Typically, such systems are built on separate, often preexisting components developed by different organizations and integrated in a highly iterative way. The traditional dialogue system pipeline is not flexible enough to add...

In a pilot project called The DNA-Dialogues online discussion boards of popular magazines featured as sites for public dialogue on genomics-related issues. As organizers and mediators of those online discussions, we experienced problems that have hardly been attended to by dialogue practitioners nor by social scientists who study and criticize public engagement activities. We illustrate those p...

We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and intention and their mutual and shared counterparts. In particular, we show how discourse obligations can be used to account in a natural manner for the connection between a question and its answer in dialogue and how ob...

We present a taxonomy for classifying speech overlap in natural language dialogue. The scheme classifies overlap on the basis of several features, including onset point, local dialogue history, and management behavior. We describe the various dimensions of this scheme and show how it was applied to a corpus of remote, collaborative dialogue. Moving forward, this will serve as the basis for a co...

Introduction Poland’s experience of social dialogue is mostly dismissed as pure failure and façade (Ost 2000; Avdagic 2005). Indeed, there is little evidence of those major, encompassing, comprehensive and institutionalised agreements that have been called ‘social pacts’ in western Europe. However, a deeper and more detailed exam of the interactions between the actors shows that there have been...

This article addresses the challenge of designing the communicative behaviour of an agent interacting with humans. We present a data-driven methodology based on the production of a matrix representation of a corpus from which we extract dialogue patterns. These patterns reflect the minimal units of interaction which turn out to be very attractive for dialogue modelling. We present a framework t...

In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexible, this protocol is defined as a combination of a set of conversation policies. These policies are formalized as a set of dialogue games. The protocol is specified using two types of dialogue games: entry dialogue g...

Prom Week is a social-simulation videogame driven by the artificial intelligence engine Comme il Faut (CiF). In each level of the game, the player selects social interactions between characters in an effort to achieve socially oriented goals. These social interactions are enacted with hand-authored natural-language dialogue exchanges, called instantiations, which also serve to render the underl...