In this paper we describe the goals of the Estonian corpus collection and analysis activities, and introduce the recent collection of Estonian First Encounters data. The MINT project aims at deepening our understanding of the conversational properties and practices in human interactions. We especially investigate conversational engagement and cooperation, and discuss some observations on the pa...

Conversations are a new programming abstraction created for capturing knowledge about the interactions among agents. In this paper we review a conversational coordination language we have designed and used in the past few years, to characterize its main assumptions, strengths and limitations. Based on this analysis we discuss a number of major new features and extensions for our next generation...

This report describes CEL, a conversational extensible language. Its syntax, data, control structures and conversational features are presented and compared to those of other languages. Its use is illustrated by means of several examples in the areas of list processing, polynomial arithmetic, formula manipulation, vector arithmetic, trees and syntax analysis, complex and rational arithmetic and...

In this paper, we de ne a measure for evaluating conversational coherency and propose a method of computing it. We de ne a deliberation stream in email communication and construct deliberation structure which the deliberation streams are introduced into. And we de ne discontinuity between utterances as the measure for evaluating conversational coherency by using the deliberation structure, con ...

Service-oriented architecture concepts and Web Services specifications allow for an infinite binding between the service requestor and the service provider. This open-ended form of interaction constrains the service provider from changing service contracts, policies and endpoints. Other distributed technologies and protocols such as Jini and DHCP provide for the use of a lease to more easily ma...

This paper surveys data management techniques used in Application Servers. It begins with an overview of Application Server architectures and the way they have evolved from earlier transaction processing systems. It then presents a ta-xonomy of clustered services that differ in the way they manage data in memory and on disk. The treatment of conversational state is discussed in depth. Finally, ...

Collaboration has been a frequently used construct to describe the practices of different therapeutic approaches for working with clients. Missing, however, is a sense of how collaboration is enacted in dialogues between therapists and clients. After defining ‘collaboration’, we analyse the actual conversational practices of Karl Tomm in his work with a couple, using conversation analysis. Our ...