We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialogue rhythm and speaker’s various states in task-oriented dialogue have been not revealed. In this study, we collected taskoriented dialogues and analyzed the relations between “dialogue structures, kinds of dialogue act...

drawing on henri meschonnic’s notion of an “inscient ethics,” and putting “inscience” into dialogue with the old ideal of a “science” of translation, the article explores the collective socio-affective ecologies that organize and regulate social and professional norms and values of translation below the level of conscious awareness—as the true underlying structure not only of “subjectivity” (so...

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 ...

Controlled user testing of the dialogue component of spoken language dialogue systems (SLDSs) has a natural focus on the detection, analysis and repair of dialogue design problems. Not only dialogue designers and their systems commit errors, however. Users do so as well. Improvement of dialogue interaction is not only a matter of reducing the number and severity of dialogue design problems but ...

Spoken dialogue systems need to track dialogue structure in order to conduct sensible conversations. In previous work, we used only a shallow analysis of past dialogue in predicting the current dialogue act. Here we show that a hierarchical analysis of dialogue structure can significantly improve dialogue act recognition. Our approach is to integrate dialogue act recognition with speech recogni...

In this paper we present a taxonomy of dialogue moves which describe the actions that students and tutors perform in tutorial dialogue. We are motivated by the need for a categorisation of such actions in order to develop computational models for tutorial dialogue. As such, we build both on existing work on dialogue move categorisation for tutorial dialogue as well as dialogue taxonomies for ge...