mixed initiative in dialogue

... 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 ... 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- ... Meeting of the ACL, Association of Computational Linguis- tics, pages 123-130, 1988. 78 Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation Marilyn Walker University...

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... dif- ferentiate initiative (which they call dialogue ini- tiative) from task initiative. They define dialogue initiative by stating that it "tracks the lead in de- termining the current ... Rules for Assigning Initiative about the effectiveness of Socratic tutoring in the BEE domain or Socratic tutoring in general. 3.2 Initiative Annotation Method The two definitions of initiative we ... an- notated using changes in initiative as a starting point; these changes were taken as marking either a segment endpoint or the beginning of a nested segment. tion following a question takes initiative. ...

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... affect ini- tiative shifts in dialogues, and showed how our model 1 In the maptask domain, the task initiative remains with one agent, the instruction giver, throughout the dialogue. predicts initiative ... Abstract In this paper, we argue for the need to dis- tinguish between task and dialogue initiatives, and present a model for tracking shifts in both types of initiatives in dialogue interactions. ... role in coordinating initia- tive shifts in face-to-face interactions, a great deal of information regarding initiative shifts can be extracted from utterances based on linguistic and domain...

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... sister 2. I think learning English is interesting. -> I think it 3. Your writing is so small that I can’t read it. -> Your writing isn’t 4. James Watt invented the steam engine. -> The ... C. quickly D. slowly 9. A. when B. while C. during D. as soon as 10. A. continued B. continuing C. continue D. will continue Iexercise 11. Change into passive voice 1) They can’t make tea with ... pollution in most cities. The lead in petrol produces a ….(6)….gas which often collects in busy streets surrounded by high buildings. Children who … ( 7) … in areas where there is a lot of lead in...

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... 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...

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... African ministers of health, the Bamako Initiative sought to translate the social institutions that organize African daily life into resources for organizing, financing, and sustaining community ... 108 in 1998, it rose again to 111 in 2003. In the Upper East Region, however, progress achieved in the 1980s and 1990s continued. According to the 2003 GDHS, the infant mortality rate in this ... community health officers (CHOs). Nurses entering the program were trained for 18 months in national training institutions and intensively for six weeks in methods of community engagement. National...

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... draw conclusions 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 behind alignment. ... dialogues are due to the actual goings-on when two interlocutors engage in collaborative problem-solving to jointly reach an understanding. In such dialogues, inter- locutors work over a period ... Linguistics Predicting Success in Dialogue David Reitter and Johanna D. Moore dreitter | jmoore @ inf.ed.ac.uk School of Informatics University of Edinburgh United Kingdom Abstract Task-solving in dialogue depends...

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... 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....

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20

... 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 ... 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 ... naturally for a mixed- initiative conversation and varying levels of cooperativity. Following the initiative of the other can be seen as an obli- gation driven process, while leading the conversation...

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... indicating that they were engaging in unprotected sex. They now have 410 women registered in their FP clinic. 19 The Lighthouse intends to move toward integrating other RH services, including ... Lighthouse Trust, an innovative ART program in Malawi and longtime implementing partner of the U.S. government. The Lighthouse has begun integrating FP into its ART clinics in two sites in Lilongwe: ... finding ways for America to sustain its prominence and prosperity as a force for good in the world. Since 1962, CSIS has grown to become one of the world’s preeminent international policy institutions,...

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... are considering basing our re-ranking on the informa- tion held in the dialogue information state, knowl- edge of what is going on in the graphical interface and on dialogue moves in the list ... Language modeling for dialog system? In Proceedings of ICSLP-2000, Bei- jing, China. Paper B1-06. 64 The in- grammar results reveal an increase in WER for all the SLMs in comparison to the baseline MP3NuanceGr. ... Combining Acoustic and 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...

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... the attribute 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 set of ... restaurants in London. SI1: What kind of cuisine are you interested in? C1: I know of 596 restaurants in London. I know of 3 inexpensive vegetarian restaurants and 14 inexpensive Chinese restaurants. ... Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Natural Language Generation INLG. G. Carenini and J. Moore. 2000. A Strategy for Gen- erating Evaluative...

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... 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...

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... ordered by increasing probability of suc- cess in the optimal ordering, we must then show how to find the position of in the optimal or- dering. We say that occurs at position in or- dering if immediately ... 11(1-2):5–18. Minimizing the Length of Non -Mixed Initiative Dialogs R. Bryce Inouye Department of Computer Science Duke University Durham, NC 27708 rbi@cs.duke.edu Abstract Dialog participants in a non -mixed ... dialog researchers have focused much attention on the study of mixed- initiative behaviors in natural language dialogs. In gen- eral, mixed initiative refers to the idea that con- trol over the content...

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... with plural addressing. Information about dialogue acts also plays a role in distinguishing between singular and plu- ral interpretations. Questions tend to be addressed to individual participants, ... or elicit-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 ... Terken. 2003. Facial orientation during multi-party inter- action with information kiosks. In Proceedings of INTERACT, Zurich, Switzerland. Donna Byron. 2004. Resolving pronominal refer- ence to abstract...

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