... with plural addressing.Information about dialogue acts also plays arole in distinguishing between singular and plu-ral interpretations. Questions tend to be addressedto individual participants, ... orelicit-inform) is more likely to be referen-tial. Eliminating information about dialogue acts(w/o DA) brings down performance (p < .005),although accuracy remains well above the baseline(p ... first discriminating between plu-ral and singular references, and then resolving thereference of the singular cases. The latter task re-quires a classification scheme for distinguishingbetween...
... for all. There is noise in the subject, in the object, in the observed, in the observer, in the transmitter and in the receiver; it is in being, in appearing and in knowing as well; moreover, ... event in question remains 'up in the air', I'm wondering if there is something happening with this poorly grounded indefinite phe- nomenon that is asking for a re-thinking of ... noise, is the song of my being and my becoming. I would not be here - breathing, thinking, living, touching, reading, writing - without it. And now a question is rushing towards me. How is...
... densely into pages in the order they appear in the WS, creating a Leaf file. We then create an Inter-nal 1 (I1) file, containing densely packed internal nodescontaining references to each block in ... masseto the on-disk database during file system consistencypoints (checkpoints). Maintaining back referencesin thepresence of snapshot creation, cloning or deletion incursno additional I/O overhead. ... queryRun LengthImmediately after maintenance200 CPs since maintenance400 CPs since maintenance600 CPs since maintenance800 CPs since maintenanceNo maintenanceFigure 9: Query Performance....
... drawconclusions relating to the psycholinguistics of dia-logue.4 Long term and short term priming In the following, we will examine syntactic (struc-tural) priming as one of the driving forces behindalignment. ... dialogues aredue to the actual goings-on when two interlocutorsengage in collaborative problem-solving to jointlyreach an understanding. In such dialogues, inter-locutors work over a period ... LinguisticsPredicting Success in Dialogue David Reitter and Johanna D. Mooredreitter | jmoore @ inf.ed.ac.ukSchool of InformaticsUniversity of EdinburghUnited KingdomAbstractTask-solving indialogue depends...
... representation, or the instructional plan. The individual conditions are combined to determine a final "score" for the PMM, using a calculus akin to MYCIN's certainty factors ([Shortliffe ... first step in using a misrepresentation involves the PMM's preconditions and applicability conditions. Preconditions are definitional constraints characterizing situations in which a ... the underlying purpose is sincere: the misrepresentation allows students to begin programming without forcing them to learn about syntax charts, parsing algorithms, or recursive definitions....
... plays the role of the dialogue manager in the TRAINS dialogue system which acts as an intelligent planning assistant in a transportation domain. While this is a domain where the assumption ... handle varying degrees of initiative, while remaining responsive. The default behavior is to allow the user to maintain the initiative through the plan construction phase of the dialogue. If ... rest of the TRAINS group at the University of Rochester for providing a stimulating research environment and a context for implementing these ideas within an inte- grated system. References [Airenti...
... areconsidering basing our re-ranking on the informa-tion held in the dialogue information state, knowl-edge of what is going on in the graphical interfaceand on dialogue moves in the list ... Language modeling fordialog system? In Proceedings of ICSLP-2000, Bei-jing, China. Paper B1-06.64The in- grammar results reveal an increase in WER for all the SLMs in comparison to thebaseline MP3NuanceGr. ... Combining Acousticand Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Per-formance in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceed-ings of ACL, Barcelona.Gorrell G., Lewin I. and Rayner M. 2002. Adding In- telligent...
... theattribute cuisine in a restaurant domain has val-ues such as “French” or “Italian”. A user utter-ance instantiating a constraint on cuisine, e.g.,“I’m interested in Chinese food”, results in a setof ... restaurants in London.SI1: What kind of cuisine are you interested in? C1: I know of 596 restaurants in London. I knowof 3 inexpensive vegetarian restaurants and 14inexpensive Chinese restaurants. ... Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems. Proc.3rd Int. Conf. on Natural Language GenerationINLG.G. Carenini and J. Moore. 2000. A Strategy for Gen-erating Evaluative...
... of maintaining a known track of communication or starting a new one: there is an effort in considering the ac-tions of a speaker within the context of a particular goal: that is, they mainly ... from a starting point (the bus station) to the finish (the Castle). Figure 1: Maps used in the recording of REC corpus Giver and follower are both native Italian speak-ers. In the instructions ... system giving positive and negative weights in an ordinal scale from +2 to -2. We also attribute a weight of 0 for actions which are in the area of “minimum social needs” of dialogue. In Table...
... systems. In Proc. National Conference on Artifi- cial Intelligence, 1982. Martha Pollack. Inferring domain plans in question answering. Technical Report 403, SRI International - Artificial Intel- ... by applying the control rules to 4 sets of dialogues, including both advi- sory dialogues (ADs) and task-oriented dialogues (TODs). We analysed both financial and support ADs. The financial ... domain-independent discourse structures. The derived structures indicate that initiative plays a role in the structuring of discourse. In order to explore the relationship of control and initiative...