Publications
In Press
Reinforcement learning of two-issue negotiation dialogue policies. In: 14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Metz, France; In Press.
Culture-specific models of negotiation for virtual characters: multi-attribute decision-making based on culture-specific values. AI & Society, Special Issue on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters. In Press.
2014
Time-offset interaction with a Holocaust survivor. In: Intelligent User Interfaces. Haifa, Israel: ACM; 2014. Abstract
2012
Improving Spoken Dialogue Understanding Using Phonetic Mixture Models. In: Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Applied Natural Language Processing: Issues and Approaches.; 2012. p. 225-38. Abstract
ISO 24617-2: A semantically-based standard for dialogue annotation. In: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul, Turkey; 2012. Abstract
The Twins corpus of museum visitor questions.. In: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012). Istanbul, Turkey; 2012. Abstract
FLoReS: A Forward Looking, Reward Seeking, Dialogue Manager. In: 4th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. Paris, France: Springer New York; 2012. Abstract
A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems. In: Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012 IEEE.; 2012. p. 49-54.
Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System. In: NAACL HLT 2012. Montreal, Canada; 2012. Abstract
Reinforcement learning of question-answering dialogue policies for virtual museum guides. In: 13th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Seoul, South Korea; 2012.
Practical Evaluation of Human and Synthesized Speech for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems. In: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul, Turkey; 2012. Abstract
A cultural decision-making model for negotiation based on inverse reinforcement learning. In: 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan; 2012.
A mixed-initiative conversational dialogue system for healthcare. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Seoul, South Korea: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2012. p. 137-9. (SIGDIAL '12).
New Dimensions in Testimony. PastForward. 2012;Summer:22-6.
Creating conversational characters using question generation tools. Dialogue and Discourse. 2012;3(2):125-46. Abstract
2011
Learning culture-specific dialogue models from non-culture specific data. In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2011.
A Cultural Decision-Making Model for Virtual Agents Playing Negotiation Games. In: International Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters,. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
Reinforcement learning of argumentation dialogue policies in negotiation. In: Interspeech, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Florence, Italy; 2011.
An annotation scheme for cross-cultural argumentation and persuasion dialogues. In: 12th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Portland, Oregon, USA; 2011.
The effects of virtual agent humor and gaze behavior on human-virtual agent proxemics. In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011. Reykjavik, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
Detecting the Status of a Predictive Incremental Speech Understanding Model for Real-Time Decision-Making in a Spoken Dialogue System. In: InterSpeech 2011. Florence, Italy; 2011. Abstract
Toward Rapid Development of Multi-Party Virtual Human Negotiation Scenarios. In: SemDial 2011. Los Angeles, CA; 2011. Abstract
SimCoach: An Intelligent Virtual Human System for Providing Healthcare Information and Support. In: I/ITSEC 2011. Orlando, Florida; 2011. Abstract
Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts. In: Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Portland, Oregon, USA: The Association for Computer Linguistics; 2011. p. 347-9. Abstract
Augmenting conversational characters with generated question-answer pairs. In: AAAI Symposium on Question Generation.; 2011. Abstract
Joint Identification and Segmentation of Domain-Specific Dialogue Acts for Conversational Dialogue Systems. In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Techologies. Portland, Oregon, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2011. p. 95-100.
Does it matter if a computer jokes?. In: Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, CHI EA '11. Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM; 2011. p. 77-86. Abstract
Using virtual tour behavior to build dialogue models for training review. In: IVA 2011. Reykjavik, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
Automatic detection of unnatural word-level segments in unit-selection speech synthesis. In: IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). Big Island, Hawaii, USA; 2011.
Limits of Simple Dialogue Acts for Tactical Questioning Dialogues. In: Proceedings of 7th IJCAI workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain); 2011. Abstract
Evaluation of an Integrated Authoring Tool for Building Advanced Question-Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech-11. Florence, Italy; 2011. Abstract
Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models.. Palm Beach, Florida; 2011. Abstract
Interactive characters for cultural training of small military units. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
Checkpoint exercise: Training with virtual actors in virtual worlds. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
The BML Sequencer: A Tool for Authoring Multi-character Animations. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
Dialog behaviors across culture and group size. Vol 6766. Orlando, Florida; 2011. Abstract
Evaluating conversational characters created through question generation.. Palm Beach, Florida; 2011. Abstract
Incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning for interactive dialogue. Dialogue & Discourse. 2011;2(1):143-70. Abstract
NPCEditor: Creating virtual human dialogue using information retrieval techniques. AI Magazine. 2011;32(2):42-56. Abstract
2010
Cross-domain speech disfluency detection. In: 11th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Tokyo, Japan; 2010.
Prediction and realisation of conversational characteristics by utilising spontaneous speech for unit selection. In: Speech Prosody. Chicago, Illinois; 2010. Abstract
The UTEP-ICT Cross-Cultural Multiparty Multimodal Dialog Corpus.. In: Multimodal Corpora Workshop: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality (MMC 2010). Valletta, Malta; 2010. Abstract
Towards an ISO standard for dialogue act annotation. In: 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Valletta, Malta; 2010. Abstract
Integration of Visual Perception in Dialogue Understanding for Virtual Humans in Multi-Party interaction.. In: AAMAS International Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters. Toronto, Canada; 2010. Abstract
IORelator: A Graphical User Interface to Enable Rapid Semantic Annotation for Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding. In: Fifth Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-5). Hong Kong; 2010. Abstract
Self-Training without Reranking for Parser Domain Adaptation and Its Impact on Semantic Role Labeling. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing. Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 37-44.
Open-domain commonsense reasoning using discourse relations from a corpus of weblog stories. In: FAM-LbR '10: Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 43-51.
NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).; 2010.
Learning dialogue strategies from older and younger simulated users. In: 11th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Tokyo, Japan; 2010.
Practical Evaluation of Speech Recognizers for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems. In: LREC-2010. Valetta, Malta; 2010. Abstract
Interpretation of Partial Utterances in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems. In: 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2010 Demonstration). Downtown Los Angeles; 2010. Abstract
Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010. Philadelphia; 2010.
Don't tell anyone! Two Experiments on Gossip Conversations. In: Proceedings of the 11th SIGdial Annual Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Tokyo: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010.
Practical Language Processing for Virtual Humans. In: Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-10).; 2010.
Natural Language Processing for Joint Fire Observer Training. In: Proceedings of the 27th Army Science Conference.; 2010.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: An empirical investigation of the upper bound of the selection approach to dialogue. In: 11th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Tokyo, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. Abstract
Dialogues in Context: An Objective User-Oriented Evaluation Approach for Virtual Human Dialogue. In: 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Valletta, Malta; 2010. Abstract
Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010). Beijing, China: Coling 2010 Organizing Committee; 2010. p. 860-8.
Dynamic Programming for Linear-Time Incremental Parsing. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2010. p. 1077-86.
Morphosyntactic annotation of CHILDES transcripts. Journal of Child Language. 2010;37:705-29.
2009
Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human. In: Ruttkay Z, Kipp M, Nijholt A, Vilhjálmsson HH, editors. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14–16, 2009 Proceedings. Vol 5733. Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 541-2. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol 5733).
Semi-formal Evaluation of Conversational Characters. In: Grumberg O, Kaminski M, Katz S, Wintner S, editors. Languages: From Formal to Natural. Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Vol 5533. Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 22-35. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol 5533).
Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue. In: 10th Annual SIGDIAL meeting on Discourse and Dialogue . London, UK; 2009. Abstract
Using Integer Linear Programming for Detecting Speech Disfluencies. In: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT). Boulder, Colorado; 2009. Abstract
An Integrated Authoring Tool for Tactical Questioning Dialogue Systems. In: 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Pasadena, California; 2009.
Viability of a Simple Dialogue Act Scheme for a Tactical Questioning Dialogue System. In: DiaHolmia 2009: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Stockholm, Sweden; 2009. p. 43-50.
Improving a Virtual Human Using a Model of Degrees of Grounding. In: International Joint Conerence on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-09. Pasadena, CA.; 2009. Abstract
Cultural Models for Virtual Humans. In: Human Computer Interaction International (HCII). San Diego, CA.; 2009. Abstract
A comparison of addressee detection methods for multiparty conversations. In: Proceedings of DIAHOLMIA'09, the 13th Semdial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Stockholm, Sweden; 2009. p. 99-106.
Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems.. In: Short Paper Proceedings of NAACL HLT.; 2009.
A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds. In: IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer; 2009. p. 372-8.
A computational account of comparative implicatures for a spoken dialogue agent.. In: Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8). Tilburg, The Netherlands; 2009. Abstract
At the Virtual Frontier: Introducing Gunslinger, a Multi-Character, Mixed-Reality, Story-Driven Experience. In: IVA '09: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 2009. p. 500-1.
Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California; 2009.
2008
Talking to Virtual Humans: Dialogue Models and Methodologies for Embodied Conversational Agents. In: Wachsmuth I, Knoblich G, editors. Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans. Springer; 2008. p. 296-309.
A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-team Interaction. In: Dybkjaer L, Minker W, editors. Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue. Springer; 2008.
A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture. In: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).; 2008.
Degrees of Groundedness Based on Evidence of Understanding. In: The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2008.
A Statistical Approach for Text Processing in Virtual Humans. In: Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2008.
From domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Brisbane, Australia; 2008.
Field Testing of an interactive question-answering character. In: Proceedings of the ELRA workshop on evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco; 2008. p. 36-40.
Coherence of off-topic responses for a virtual character. In: Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2008.
Practical Grammar-Based NLG from Examples. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference. Salt Fork, Ohio: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2008. p. 77-85.
Rapidly deploying grammar-based speech applications with active learning and back-off grammars. In: SIGdial '08: Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2008. p. 64-7.
Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters. In: Army Science Conference. Florida; 2008.
Anaphoric annotation in the ARRAU corpus. In: LREC-2008. Marrakech, Morocco; 2008.
Thoughts on {FML}: Behavior Generation in the Virtual Human Communication Architecture. In: Proceedings of FML 2008, The First Functional Markup Language Workshop at AAMAS.; 2008.
Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents. In: IVA.; 2008. p. 117-30.
Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding . In: The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2008). Columbus, Ohio; 2008. Abstract
Computational Models of Non-Cooperative dialogue. In: LONDIAL 2008 Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. London, UK; 2008.
What would you ask a conversational agent? Observations of Human-Agent dialogues in a museum setting. In: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Marrakech (Morocco); 2008. Abstract
Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems. In: Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Columbus, Ohio: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2008. p. 198-207.
An evaluation understudy for dialogue coherence models. In: SIGdial '08: Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2008. p. 172-81.
Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics. Computational Linguistics. 2008;34(4):555-96.
2007
Creating Spoken Dialogue Characters from Corpora without Annotations. In: Proceedings of Interspeech-07. Antwerp, Belgium; 2007.
Hassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning. In: Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2007. p. 71-4.
First Steps towards Dialogue Modeling from an Un-annotated Human-Human Corpus. In: 5th Workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems. Hyderabad, India; 2007.
The Rickel Gaze Model: A Window on the Mind of a Virtual Human. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference. Paris, France; 2007. Abstract
First Steps toward Dialogue Modelling from an Un-annotated Human-Human Corpus . In: IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Hyderabad, India ; 2007. Abstract
Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments. In: Proceedings of I/ITSEC.; 2007.
Simulation and Evaluation of Virtual Human Non-Verbal Interaction. In: 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden ; 2007.
A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior. In: IVA. Paris, France: Springer; 2007. p. 45-56.
Dynamic movement and positioning of embodied agents in multiparty conversations. In: AAMAS. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: IFAAMAS; 2007. 14.
Handling out-of-grammar commands in mobile speech interaction using backoff filler models. In: SLP '07: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2007. p. 33-40.
Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Paris, France; 2007. p. 197-210.
Using Information State to Improve Dialogue Move Identification in a Spoken Dialogue System. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Antwerp, Belgium; 2007.
The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans. In: Intelligent Systems Demonstrations program, AAAI. Vancouver, British Columbia ; 2007. Abstract
A model of compliance and emotion for potentially adversarial dialogue agents. In: In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2007.
The {R}ickel {G}aze {M}odel: A Window on the Mind of a {V}irtual {H}uman. In: IVA.; 2007. p. 296-303.
Rejection of Empathy in Negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation. 2007;16. Abstract
2006
Building Effective Question Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia; 2006.
AXL.Net: Web-enabled Case Method Instruction for Accelerating Tacit Knowledge Acquisition in Leaders. In: 25th Army Sceince Conference. Florida; 2006.
Tracking Dragon-Hunters with Language Models. In: Yu PS, Tsotras V, Fox E, Liu B, editors. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Arlington, VA: ACM Press. NY, USA; 2006. p. 698-707.
Evaluation of an Information State-Based Dialogue Manager. In: Brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Potsdam, Germany; 2006.
An Information State-Based Dialogue Manager for Call for Fire Dialogues. In: The 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia; 2006. Abstract
Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06). Marina del Rey, CA; 2006.
How to talk to a hologram. In: Edmonds E, Riecken D, Paris CL, Sidner CL, editors. Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI'06). Sydney, Australia: ACM Press New York, NY, USA; 2006. p. 360-2.
Asking questions to limited domain virtual characters: how good does speech recognition have to be?. In: Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference.; 2006.
Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Virtual Reality Call for Fire Training. In: 25th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Fl.; 2006. Abstract
Radiobot-CFF: A Spoken Dialogue System for Military Training. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Pittsburgh, PA; 2006.
Yeah right: Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems. In: Interspeech 2006. Pittsburgh, PA; 2006. Abstract
Improving question-answering with linking dialogues. In: IUI '06: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2006. p. 369-71.
Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation, 82:685--701, 2006. . 2006;Volume 82(11). Abstract
Sharing Solutions: Persistence and Grounding in Multimodal Collaborative Problem Solving . Journal of the Learning Sciences. 2006;15. Abstract
Toward Virtual Humans. AI Magazine. 2006;27. Abstract
2005
Simulation meets Hollywood: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Story and Character for Immersive Simulation. In: Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation. Vol Vol. 27.; 2005. p. 279-303. (Text, Speech and Language Technology; vol Vol. 27). Abstract
The virtuality Continuum revisited. In: CHI 2005 Workshop on the virtuality continuum revisited. Portland, Oregon; 2005. Abstract
Miscommunication: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. In: Symposium on Miscommunication at Cogsci2005. Stresa, Italy; 2005. Abstract
A Computational Model of Dynamic Perceptual Attention for Virtual Humans. In: 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation.; 2005. Abstract
Rejection of empathy and its linguistic manifestations. In: Formal and Informal Negotiation, FINEXIN. Canada: Ottawa,Ontario; 2005. Abstract
Controlling the focus of perceptual attention in embodied conversational agents. In: AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2005. p. 1097-8.
Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing under Crisis. In: proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (IVA). Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2005. p. 52-64.
Transonics: a practical speech-to-speech translator for English-Farsi medical dialogues. In: ACL '05: Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2005. p. 89-92.
Virtual Humans for non-team Interaction training. In: In proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Creating Bonds with Embodied Conversational Agents.; 2005.
Dialog Simulation for Background Characters. In: IVA. Kos, Greece: Springer; 2005. p. 65-74.
Statistical Shallow Semantic Parsing despite Little Training Data. In: Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (ACL/SIGPARSE'05). Vancouver, B.C., Canada; 2005.
Context Features in Email Archives. In: Proceedings of IRiX workshop at SIGIR'05.; 2005.
Dealing With Doctors: Virtual Humans for non-team interaction training. In: Proceedings of ACL/ISCA 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Lisbon, Portugal; 2005.
2004
Evaluation of multi-party virtual reality dialogue interaction. In: Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004).; 2004. p. 1699-702.
Issues in multi-party dialogues. In: Dignum F, editor. Advances in Agent Communication. Springer Verlag; 2004. p. 201-11. (LNAI 2922).
Simulation of Small Group Discussions for Middle Level of Detail Crowds. In: Proceedings of the Army Science Conference.; 2004.
First Steps Toward Linking Dialogues: Mediating Between Free-text Questions and Pre-recorded Video Answers. In: Proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2004.
Do You Want To Talk About It? A First Step Towards Emotion Integrated Dialogue.. In: Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems. Kloster Irsee, Germany; 2004. Abstract
Emotion and Dialogue in the MRE Virtual Humans.. In: Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems. Kloster, Irsee; 2004. Abstract
Email is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives. In: Sanderson M, Järvelin PK, Allan J, Bruza P, editors. Proceedings of 27th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'04). Sheffield, United Kingdom: ACM Press. NY, USA; 2004. p. 502-3.
Evaluation of Transcription and Annotation tools for a Multi-modal, Multi-party dialogue corpus. In: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). Lisbon, Portugal; 2004. Abstract
Issues in corpus development for multi-party multi-modal task-oriented dialogue. In: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). Lisbon, Portugal; 2004. Abstract
Small group discussion simulation for middle level of detail crowds. In: 8th workshop on semantics and pragmatics of dialogue.; 2004.
Toward Virtual Humans. In: AAAI Fall symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research. Arlington, Virginia; 2004. Abstract
The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient interviews. In: working notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication.; 2004. p. 97-103.
Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity. User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). 2004;14:259-88.
2003
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management. In: van Kuppevelt J, Smith R, editors. Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Kluwer; 2003. p. 325-53.
TRANSONICS: A SPEECH TO SPEECH SYSTEM FOR ENGLISH-PERSIAN INTERACTIONS. In: IEEE ASRU. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; 2003. Abstract
Protecting the Privacy of Observable Behavior in Distributed Recommender Systems. In: Proceedings of SIGIR'03 Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences.; 2003.
Negotiation over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training. In: Proceedings of AAMAS 2003: Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.; 2003. p. 441-8.
Functions and Patterns of Speaker and Addressee Identifications in Distributed Complex Organizational Tasks Over Radio. In: Diabruck: seventh workshop on semantics and pragmatics of dialogue.; 2003.
Searching Recorded Speech Based on the Temporal Extent of Topic Labels. In: Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management. Palo Alto, CA; 2003.
Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions and Answers for Dialogue Agents. In: proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics.; 2003. p. 380-94.
Breakdown in Human-machine interaction: the error is the clue. In: ISCA tutorial and research workshop on Error handling in dialogue systems.; 2003. Abstract
NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment. In: Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue.; 2003.
Making MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). 2003;2:219-44.
2002
Embodied Agents for Multi-party Dialogue in Immersive Virtual Worlds. In: Proceedings of the first International Joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent systems.; 2002. p. 766-73.
Toward a new generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 2002;17:32-8.
2001
Ideas on Multi-layer Dialogue Management for Multi-party, Multi-conversation, Multi-modal Communication. In: CLIN.; 2001. p. 1-7.
Interlocution scenarios for problem solving in an educational mud environment. In: 1st European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Euro-CSCL 2001). Maastricht, The Netherlands; 2001.
Anticipatory planning for decision-theoretic grounding and task advancement in mixed-initiative dialogue systems. In: NAACL 2001 workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems. Pittsburgh, PA; 2001.
Implicit Cues for Explicit Generation: Using Telicity as a Cue for Tense Structure in a Chinese to English MT System. In: Machine Translation Summit VIII. Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 2001. Abstract
2000
Cooperation, Dialog, and Ethics. In International Journal of Human Computer Studies. 2000;53:871-914.
Information state and dialogue management in the {TRINDI} Dialogue Move Engine Toolkit. Natural Language Engineering. 2000;6:323-40.
20 Questions for Dialogue Act Taxonomies. Journal of Semantics. 2000;17:7-30.