David DeVault
Research Scientist.
Research Areas: Natural language dialogue systems generally, including work in natural language understanding, dialogue management, natural language generation, and incremental processing.
Projects
Publications
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Full TextIncremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System. In: NAACL HLT 2012. Montreal, Canada; 2012. Abstract
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Full TextA 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).
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Full TextFLoReS: A Forward Looking, Reward Seeking, Dialogue Manager. In: 4th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. Paris, France: Springer New York; 2012. Abstract
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Full TextDetecting 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
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Full TextToward Rapid Development of Multi-Party Virtual Human Negotiation Scenarios. In: SemDial 2011. Los Angeles, CA; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextCheckpoint exercise: Training with virtual actors in virtual worlds. Reykjavík, Iceland; 2011. Abstract
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Full TextIncremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning for interactive dialogue. Dialogue & Discourse. 2011;2(1):143-70. Abstract
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Full TextInterpretation 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
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Full TextIORelator: 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
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Full TextCan 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
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Towards Natural Language Understanding of Partial Speech Recognition Results in Dialogue Systems.. In: Short Paper Proceedings of NAACL HLT.; 2009.
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Full TextMaking 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.
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Full TextPractical 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.
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Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters. In: Army Science Conference. Florida; 2008.
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Full TextFrom domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Brisbane, Australia; 2008.
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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.