@conference {850,
	title = {Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue},
	booktitle = {10th Annual SIGDIAL meeting on Discourse and Dialogue },
	year = {2009},
	month = {September 2009},
	address = {London, UK},
	abstract = {We investigate novel approaches to responsive overlap behaviors in dialogue systems, opening possibilities for systems to interrupt, acknowledge or complete a user{\textquoteright}s utterance while it is still in progress. Our specific contributions are a method for determining when a system has reached a point of maximal understanding of an ongoing user utterance, and a prototype implementation that shows how systems can use this ability to strategically initiate system completions of user utterances. More broadly, this framework facilitates the implementation of a range of overlap behaviors that are common in human dialogue, but have been largely absent in dialogue systems.},
	url = {http://people.ict.usc.edu/~traum/Papers/dst_sigdial09_final.pdf},
	author = {David DeVault and Kenji Sagae and David R. Traum}
}
