... DIKSIGNFOR I)IALOGUE COMPREHENSION William C. Mann USC Information Sciences Institute Marina del Rey, CA April, 1979 This paper describes aspects of the design of a dialogue comprehension ... llearsay-l[ and makes Preeminence Scheduling fairly straightforward. I. Dialogue Games, Speech Acts and DCS Examination of actual human dialogue reveals structure extending over • ~overal turns ... resolve. Our past work on dialogue has led to an account of this structure, Dialogue Game theory fLorin & Moore 1978; Moore, l,evlu & Mann 1977]. This theory claims that dialogues (and other...
... Mini-Tests for Listening Comprehension ~0~ Parts I, II, III, and IV ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── SECTION I: LISTENING COMPREHENSION Part I: Picture ... will let you operate any electronic appliance in your home from a comfortable chair. Call our toll-free number for more information. No sales personnel will call your home. Now read question ... invoices and the payroll. W: I needed the tax statement for this quarter first. M: I can't compute the taxes without the salary information. What is the relationship of the speakers? (A)...
... limit.Scanning for specific information1. Underlining or circling the required information in a given time limit.2. Pre- questions focusing on specific informationReading for detail1. Information ... techniques for teaching comprehensionfor the 11th form students.31CHAPTER 3SOME SUGGESTED TECHNIQUES USED IN THE WHILE- READING STAGE TO DEVELOP THE READING SKILLS FOR THE 11TH FORM STUDENTSAs ... clear purposes while reading (for example, reading for general ideas, reading for specific information, and reading for further understanding) with clear instructions for various kinds of activities...
... clear purposes while reading (for example, reading for general ideas, reading for specific information, and reading for further understanding) with clear instructions for various kinds of activities ... while- reading techniques for teaching comprehensionfor the 11th form students.31CHAPTER 2:THE PRESENT SITUATION OF LEARNING TEACHING READING TO THE 11TH FORM STUDENTS AT PHAN DANG ... reading for general understanding, while asking the students to scanning for pieces of information in the text, it is useful to provide the students with True/ False exercises. For instance, for...
... reading is an important way of gaining information in foreign language learning. Reading comprehension is a basic skill for college students including foreign language learners. There are a lot ... might be reading for enjoyment, information, or to complete a task. If he is exploring or reviewing, he might skim a document. If he is searching for information, he might scan for a particular ... in English before looking for a translation” (p.26). It is to use a monolingual dictionary that has been designed for foreign learners. This type of dictionary gives more information about...
... That means that the most common rea-son for the speaker to interrupt is to ask for or giveinformation that is crucial for the driving task (asopposed for the other and traffic domains, whichare ... Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 798–805,Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsNow, where was I?Resumption strategies for an in-vehicle dialogue ... some implications for resumption strategies in an in-vehicle dialogue system.1 IntroductionMaking it useful and enjoyable to use a dialogue system is always important. The dialogue shouldbe...
... re-lational models of dialogue structure for control-ling the action space in POMDPs. This approachis part of an ongoing work to develop a unifiedframework for adaptive dialogue management inrich, ... updateof dialogue state: A pomdp framework for spoken dialogue systems. Computer Speech & Language,August.Ch. Wang, S. Joshi, and R. Khardon. 2007. First orderdecision diagrams for relational ... 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsTowards Relational POMDPs for Adaptive Dialogue ManagementPierre LisonLanguage Technology LabGerman Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence...
... classifiers perform significantly bet-ter for distinguishing user requests for feed-back and grounding dialogue acts within textual dialogue. The results point to ways in which dialogue systems ... lester}@ncsu.edu Abstract Dialogue act classification is a central chal-lenge fordialogue systems. Although the im-portance of emotion in human dialogue is widely recognized, most dialogue act classifi-cation ... signifi-cantly enhance dialogue act classification for two types of dialogue acts, GROUNDING and REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK. Table 4. Classification accuracy and kappa for spe-cialized DA classifiers....
... June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsSemantic Information and Derivation Rules for Robust Dialogue ActDetection in a Spoken Dialogue SystemWei-Bin Liang1Chung-Hsien ... Markov model assump-tion for the chain of the dialogue acts. Figure 2shows an example of dialogue controlling model ofan SDS. In this example, each state represents a DA.A dialogue begins with ... computed.Figure 2: An example of a dialogue management mod-ule using n-gram model fordialogue act sequence in thedomain of historic spot.3 ASR Score and History Score For the ASR score, we use the...
... performance end end average_performance and keep average_performance end B = best average_performance bestFeatures B ∪ bestFeatures end Figure 2. Implemented algorithm for forward ... features selected to label the examples. We used the 3 best features for PPV for the Emotional Learner and the best feature for NPV for the Non-Emotional Learner (see Section 4.1). The x-axis shows ... dimensionality and find the best set of features for maximizing the PPV for Emotional class and NPV for Non-Emotional class. We applied the Wrapper Approach with Forward Selection as described in section...
... point. For the pruned topic types, we reserved 10 ran- domly picked dialogues for testing (each test file con- tained about 400-500 test utterances), and used the other 70 dialogues for training ... fact that the information content of the utterances is ignored. Consistency of the information exchanged in (task- oriented) conversations is one of the main sources for dialogue coherence, ... shifts of attention, we seek a formalisation of the information structure of utterances in terms of the new information that is exchanged in the course of the dialogue. The purpose of our...
... World Wide Web, pp 407-416. Rieser V, Lemon O (2011) Reinforcement learning for adaptive dialogue systems: a data-driven methodolo-gy fordialogue management and natural language generation. ... here.</utterance> < /dialogue& gt; Figure 2: An example of a dialogue unit 204Acknowledgments The author would like to thank the Institute for Infocomm Research for its support and permission ... script The extracted information was finally organized in dialogical units, in which the information regar-ding turn sequences inside each dialogue, as well as dialogue sequences within...