Multi-agent human--machine dialogue: issues in dialogue management and referring expression semantics

Authors:
Alistair Knott;Peter Vlugter
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
Venue:
Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2008

Citing 4
Cited 2

Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse

Computational Linguistics
A computational theory of grounding in natural language conversation

A computational theory of grounding in natural language conversation
Embodied agents for multi-party dialogue in immersive virtual worlds

Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Language-Driven Nonverbal Communication in a Bilingual Conversational Agent

CASA '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003)

Building an Autopoietic Knowledge Structure for Natural Language Conversational Agents

RuleML '08 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web
Are you being addressed?: real-time addressee detection to support remote participants in hybrid meetings

SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents an implemented model of dialogue management for simple dialogues involving multiple speakers. In our model, the user is one speaker, and the system 'plays' a number of other speakers. We present a number of principles governing dialogue management in such cases, which relate to turn-taking and the identification of the addressees of utterances. We also consider how to extend a syntactic and semantic treatment of first- and second-person personal pronouns, and of addressee terms, in order to deal with the multi-speaker scenario. We give some examples of our current system, and conclude by outlining some extensions of the system to include disagreements, interruptions, and private communication between subgroups of dialogue participants.