Van Kuppevelt J., Smith R.W. (eds.) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue

Kluwer, 2003. — 384 pp.The origins of this book arise from the highly successful second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue that was held in September 2001 in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The original workshop proceedings consisted of 29 papers selected from 57 submissions, an exceptionally high number of submissions for a two day workshop.
This book includes extended versions of 12 papers originally presented at the workshop. In addition, 4 other invited papers on major themes in discourse and dialogue research are included. There are three main themes addressed by the papers in this collection: (1) corpus annotation and analysis; (2) methodologies for construction of dialogue systems; and (3) perspectives on various key theoretical issues including communicative intention, context-based generation, and modeling of discourse structure. However, because of the very nature of discourse and dialogue research that often requires researchers to tackle several issues in one piece of work, we have chosen to order the papers alphabetically by author rather than try to create artificial thematic sections.
We believe this collection provides a concise yet reasonably comprehensive snapshot of major research themes in discourse and dialogue. We hope that readers will benefit greatly from this collection.Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken Language Corpus
Using Direct Variant Transduction for Rapid Development of Natural
An Interface for Annotating Natural Interactivity
Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in Human Computer Dialogue
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-Human Dialogues
Full Paraphrase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue
Disentangling Public from non-Public Meaning
Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue
Plug and Play Spoken Dialogue Processing
Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory
Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management
Visualizing Spoken Discourse