Getting computers to talk like you and me
Getting computers to talk like you and me
Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
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C4.5: programs for machine learning
Informational redundancy and resource bounds in dialogue
Informational redundancy and resource bounds in dialogue
Classifying cue phrases in text and speech using machine learning
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The nature of statistical learning theory
The nature of statistical learning theory
Machine Learning
A computational theory of grounding in natural language conversation
A computational theory of grounding in natural language conversation
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech
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Building a large annotated corpus of English: the penn treebank
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Empirical studies on the disambiguation of cue phrases
Computational Linguistics
A computational theory of the function of clue words in argument understanding
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Now let's talk about now: identifying cue phrases intonationally
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Combining multiple knowledge sources for discourse segmentation
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An empirical model of acknowledgment for spoken-language systems
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A prosodic analysis of discourse segments in direction-giving monologues
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Redundancy in collaborative dialogue
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Disambiguating cue phrases in text and speech
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
A shallow model of backchannel continuers in spoken dialogue
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Edit detection and parsing for transcribed speech
NAACL '01 Proceedings of the second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies
Natural behavior of a listening agent
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Predicting Listener Backchannels: A Probabilistic Multimodal Approach
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
A Listening Agent Exhibiting Variable Behaviour
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Detecting pitch accents at the word, syllable and vowel level
NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Cue phrase classification using machine learning
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
Turn-yielding cues in task-oriented dialogue
SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Classification of prosodic events using Quantized Contour Modeling
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Accent and discourse context: assigning pitch accent in synthetic speech
AAAI'90 Proceedings of the eighth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
The additive effect of turn-taking cues in human and synthetic voice
Speech Communication
SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development
ICASSP'92 Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech and signal processing - Volume 1
Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue
Computer Speech and Language
Multimodal multilingual dictionary of gestures: digest
COST'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment
Semi-supervised methods for exploring the acoustics of simple productive feedback
Speech Communication
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We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words-a family of cue words such as "okay" or "alright" that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic realization of such functions in a corpus of spontaneous, task-oriented dialogues in Standard American English. These results are important both for interpretation and for production in spoken language applications. We also assess the predictive power of computational methods for the automatic disambiguation of these words. We find that contextual information and final intonation figure as the most salient cues to automatic disambiguation.