Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation (2009)
Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn Walker
Despite its long history, and a great deal of research producing many useful algorithms and observations, research in cooperative response generation has had little impact on the recent...
Chapter 14 EVALUATING DIALOGUE STRATEGIES IN MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (2008)
Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker
Abstract Previous research suggests that multimodal dialogue systems providing both speech and pen input, and outputting a combination of spoken language and graphics, are more robust than unimodal...
Developing and testing general models of spoken dialogue system performance (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Ace Kamm, Julie Bol
walker, The design of methods for performance evaluation is a major open research issue in the area of spoken language dialogue systems. This paper presents the PARADISE methodology for developing...
Matthew Marge, Marilyn Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, ...
� People tailor their utterances to their conversational partners � Based on user model of partner � User modeling improves: � Listeners ’ comprehension � Satisfaction with interactive...
François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker
One of the most robust findings of studies of human-human dialogue is that people adapt their utterances to their conversational partners. However, spoken language generators are limited in their...
François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker, From Conversations
� Improve user modeling in computer systems � Identify leaders in conversation � Match people in dating websites � Create better training systems • How to measure personality? • What does...
Towards Customizable Individualized Dialogue Systems (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Roger Moore, Steve Whittaker, Johanna Moore, Steve Young, U. Sheffield Speech
Spoken language dialogue systems are one of the few extant examples of an intelligent artifact that can interact with humans. As such, they provide a platform for exploring fundamental cognitive...
Michael Kearns, Diane Litman, Marilyn Walker
Recently, a number of authors have proposed treating dialogue systems as Markov decision processes (MDPs). However, the practical application of MDP algorithms to dialogue systems faces a number of...
Individual and Domain Adaptation in Sentence Planning for Dialogue (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Amanda Stent, François Mairesse, Rashmi Prasad
One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the need for the...
Individual and Domain Adaptation in Sentence Planning for Dialogue (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Amanda Stent, François Mairesse, Rashmi Prasad
One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the need for the...
Individual and Domain Adaptation in Sentence Planning for Dialogue (2008)
Marilyn Walker, Amanda Stent, François Mairesse, Rashmi Prasad
One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the need for the...
Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, François Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, Marilyn Walker, Jonathan Foster
This paper describes a dialogue data collection experiment and resulting corpus for dialogues between a senior mobile journalist and a junior cub reporter back at the office. The purpose of the...
Should I Tell All?: An Experiment On Conciseness in Spoken Dialogue (2008)
Stephen Whittaker, Marilyn Walker, Preetam Maloor
Spoken dialogue systems have a strong requirement to produce concise and informative utterances. While interacting over a phone, users must both understand the system’s utterances, and remember...
Trainable generation of big-five personality styles through data-driven parameter estimation (2008)
François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker
Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user feedback. More recent...
Developing And Testing General Models Of Spoken Dialogue System Performance (2007)
Marilyn Walker, Candace Kamm, Ace Kamm, Julie Boland
The design of methods for performance evaluation is a major open research issue in the area of spoken language dialogue systems. This paper presents the PARADISE methodology for developing predictive...
Evaluating Spoken Language Systems (2007)
Candace Kamm And, Ace Kamm, Marilyn Walker, Diane Litman
Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating...
Evaluating Spoken Language Systems (2007)
Ace Kamm, Marilyn Walker, Diane Litman
Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating...
Marilyn Walker, Aravind K. Joshi, Ruslan Mitkov
Work on centering (Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein 1995) has had a very strong impact both on research in discourse and on the development of systems for computational dis-course processing. Early papers...
Dawn Dutton, Selina Chu, Computer Sci Bldg, James Hubbell, Marilyn Walker, Shrikanth Narayanan
AT&T Communicator is a state-of-the-art speech-enabled telephony-based application that allows the end-user to, among other things, select and reserve airline itineraries. This experiment...
ABSTRACT Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition technology have (2007)
Owen Rambow, Srinivas Bangalore, Marilyn Walker
put the goal of naturally sounding dialog systems within reach. However, the improved speech recognition has brought to light a new problem: as dialog systems understand more of what the user tells...
Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems (2007)
Rambow, Owen, Bangalore, Srinivas, Walker, Marilyn
Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition technology have put the goal of naturally sounding dialog systems within reach. However, the improved speech recognition has brought to light a new...
Personage: Personality generation for dialogue (2007)
François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker
Over the last fifty years, the “Big Five” model of personality traits has become a standard in psychology, and research has systematically documented correlations between a wide range of...
Learning database content for spoken dialogue system design (2006)
Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn Walker
Spoken dialogue systems are common interfaces to backend data in information retrieval domains. As more data is made available on the Web and IE technology matures, dialogue systems, whether they be...
An analysis of automatic content selection algorithms for spoken dialogue system summaries (2006)
Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn Walker
Previous work on information presentation in dialogue systems has argued that a user model is essential for selecting utterance content. Other work claims that the ability to browse the data is...
Learning to Personalize Spoken Generation for Dialogue Systems (2005)
Mairesse, Francois, Walker, Marilyn
One of the most robust findings of studies of human-human dialogue is that people adapt their utterances to their conversational partners. However, spoken language generators are limited in their...
Augmenting variation of system utterances using corpora in spoken dialogue systems (2005)
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Compared to the variation in utterances that users may exhibit in conversation with spoken dialogue systems, system utterances can be very rigid with little variation. One recent approach to dealing...
Augmenting variation of system utterances using corpora in spoken dialogue systems (2005)
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Compared to the variation in utterances that users may exhibit in conversation with spoken dialogue systems, system utterances can be very rigid with little variation. One recent approach to dealing...
Learning to personalize spoken generation for dialogue systems (2005)
François Mairesse, Marilyn Walker
One of the most robust findings of studies of human-human dialogue is that people adapt their utterances to their conversational partners. However, spoken language generators are limited in their...
Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems (2004)
Amanda Stent, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
A challenging problem for spoken dialog systems is the design of utterance generation modules that are fast, flexible and general, yet produce high quality output in particular domains. A promising...
Generation and Evaluation of User Tailored Responses in Multimodal Dialogue (2003)
Walker, Marilyn, Whittaker, S, Stent, A, Maloor, P, Moore, J, Johnston, M, ...
A trainable generator for recommendations in multimodal dialog (2003)
Marilyn Walker, Rashmi Prasad, A Stent
As the complexity of spoken dialogue systems has increased, there has been increasing interest spoken language generation (SLG). SLG promises portability across application domains and dialogue...
A Trainable Generator for Recommendations in Multimodal Dialog (2003)
Marilyn Walker, Rashmi Prasad, Amanda Stent
As the complexity of spoken dialogue systems has increased, there has been increasing interest spoken language generation (SLG). SLG promises portability across application domains and dialogue...
A trainable generator for recommendations in multimodal dialog (2003)
Marilyn Walker, Rashmi Prasad, A Stent
As the complexity of spoken dialogue systems has increased, there has been increasing interest in spoken language generation (SLG). SLG promises portability across application domains and dialogue...
Automatically Training A Problematic Dialogue Predictor for the HMIHY Spoken Dialogue System (2002)
Walker, Marilyn, Langkilde-Geary, Irene, Wright Hastie, Helen, Wright, Jerry, Gorin, Allen
DARPA Communicator Evaluation: Progress from 2000 to 2001 (2002)
Walker, Marilyn, Rudnicky, Alex, Aberdeen, John, Bratt, Elizabeth, Garofolo, John, Hastie, Helen, ...
DARPA Communicator: Cross-System Results for the 2001 Evaluation (2002)
Walker, Marilyn, Rudnicky, Alex, Prasad, Rashmi, Aberdeen, John, Bratt, Elizabeth, Garofolo, John, ...
MATCH: An architecture for multimodal dialogue systems (2002)
Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, A Stent, Patrick Ehlen, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, ...
Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? none Interfaces for mobile information access need to allow users to dynamically adapt their choice of modes according to their preferences, task...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
The objective of the DARPA Communicator project is to support rapid, cost-effective development of multi-modal speech-enabled dialogue systems with advanced conversational capabilities. During the...
Training a dialogue act tagger for human-human and human-computer travel dialogues (2002)
While dialogue acts provide a useful schema for characterizing dialogue behaviors in human-computer and humanhuman dialogues, their utility is limited by the huge effort involved in handlabelling...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
The objective of the DARPA Communicator project is to support rapid, cost-effective development of multi-modal speech-enabled dialogue systems with advanced conversational capabilities. During the...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information,...
Training a dialogue act tagger for human-human and human-computer travel dialogues (2002)
While dialogue acts provide a useful schema for characterizing dialogue behaviors in human-computer and humanhuman dialogues, their utility is limited by the huge effort involved in handlabelling...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information,...
Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: Experiments with the njfun system (2002)
Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns, Marilyn Walker
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a dialogue policy, which...
Fish or fowl: A wizard of oz evaluation of dialogue strategies in tehe restaurant domain (2002)
Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker, Johanna Moore
Recent work on evaluation of spoken dialogue systems suggests that the information presentation phase of complex dialogues is often the primary contributor to dialogue duration. This indicates that...
User-tailored generation for spoken dialogue: an experiment (2002)
A Stent, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, Preetam Maloor
Recent work on evaluation of spoken dialogue systems suggests that the information presentation phase of complex dialogues is often the primary contributor to dialogue duration. Therefore, better...
DARPA Communicator evaluation: progress from 2000 to 2001 (2002)
Marilyn Walker, Alex Rudnicky, John Aberdeen, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Rashmi Prasad, Salim Roukos, ...
This paper describes the evaluation methodology and results of the DARPA Communicator spoken dialog system evaluation experiments in 2000 and 2001. Nine spoken dialog systems in the travel planning...
Fish or fowl: A wizard of oz evaluation of dialogue strategies in tehe restaurant domain (2002)
Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker, Johanna Moore
Recent work on evaluation of spoken dialogue systems suggests that the information presentation phase of complex dialogues is often the primary contributor to dialogue duration. This indicates that...
MATCH: An architecture for multimodal dialogue systems (2002)
Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, A Stent, Patrick Ehlen, Marilyn Walker, ...
Mobile interfaces need to allow the user and system to adapt their choice of communication modes according to user preferences, the task at hand, and the physical and social environment. We describe...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information,...
Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: Experiments with the njfun system (2002)
Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns, Marilyn Walker
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a dialogue policy, which...
Training a sentence planner for spoken dialogue using boosting. Computer Speech and Language (2002)
Monica Rogati, Marilyn Walker, Owen Rambow
The dialog manager of a spoken dialog system often performs domain dependent functions as well as general dialog tasks. It is possible to separate the domain specific knowledge from knowledge about...
Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: Experiments with the njfun system (2002)
Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns, Marilyn Walker
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a dialogue policy, which...
Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn Walker
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information,...
Training a dialogue act tagger for human-human and human-computer travel dialogues (2002)
While dialogue acts provide a useful schema for characterizing dialogue behaviors in human-computer and humanhuman dialogues, their utility is limited by the huge effort involved in handlabelling...
MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems (2002)
Michael Johnston Srinivas, Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, A Stent, Patrick Ehlen, ...
Mobile interfaces need to allow the user and system to adapt their choice of communication modes according to user preferences, the task at hand, and the physical and social environment. We describe...
MATCH: An architecture for multimodal dialogue systems (2002)
Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, A Stent, Patrick Ehlen, Marilyn Walker, ...
Mobile interfaces need to allow the user and system to adapt their choice of communication modes according to user preferences, the task at hand, and the physical and social environment. We describe...
DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems (2001)
Marilyn Walker, Rebecca Passonneau
This paper describes a dialogue act tagging scheme developed for the purpose of providing finer-grained quantitative dialogue metrics for comparing and evaluating DARPA COMMUNICATOR spoken dialogue...
DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems (2001)
Marilyn Walker, Rebecca Passonneau
This paper describes a dialogue act tagging scheme developed for the purpose of providing finer-grained quantitative dialogue metrics for comparing and evaluating DARPA COMMUNICATOR spoken dialogue...
NJFun: A reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system (2000)
Diane Litman, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Marilyn Walker
This paper describes NJFun, a real-time spoken dia-logue systemthat-provides users with information about things to d ~ in New Jersey. NJFun auto-matically optimizes its dialogue strategy over time,...
Evaluation for DARPA communicator spoken dialogue systems (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Lynette Hirschman Y, John Aberdeen Y
The overall objective of the DARPA COMMUNICATOR project is to support rapid, cost-effective development of multi-modal speechenabled dialogue systems with advanced conversational capabilities, such...
Towards developing general models of usability with (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Ace Kamm, Diane Litman
The design of methods for performmce evaluation is a major open resem'ch issue in the re'ca of spoken lmguage dialogue systems. In this paper we present the PARADISE methodology for...
Marilyn Walker, Irene Langkilde, Jerry Wright, Alien Gorin, Diane Litman
Current spoken dialogue systems are deficient in their strategies for preventing, identifying and re-pairing problems that arise in the conversation. This paper reports results on learning to...
Marilyn Walker, Jerry Wright, Irene Langkilde
While it has recently become possible to build spoken dialogue systems that interact with users in real-time in a range of domains, systems that support conversational natural language are still...
Towards Developing General Models of Usability with PARADISE (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Candace Kamm, Ace Kamm, Diane Litman
The design of methods for performance evaluation is a major open research issue in the area of spoken language dialogue systems. This paper presents the PARADISE methodology for developing predictive...
Evaluation for Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Lynette Hirschman, John Aberdeen
The overall objective of the DARPA COMMUNICATOR project is to support rapid, cost-effective development of multi-modal speechenabled dialogue systems with advanced conversational capabilities, such...
Marilyn Walker, Irene Langkilde, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Diane Litman
Current spoken dialogue systems are deficient in their strategies for preventing, identifying and repairing problems that arise in the conversation. This paper reports results on learning to...
Towards Developing General Models of Usability with PARADISE (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Candace Kamm, Ace Kamm, Diane Litman
The design of methods for performance evaluation is a major open research issue in the area of spoken language dialogue systems. In this paper we present the PARADISE methodology for developing...
Marilyn Walker, Jerry Wright, Irene Langkilde
While it has recently become possible to build spoken dialogue systems that interact with users in real-time in a range of domains, systems that support conversational natural language are still...
Evaluation for DARPA Communicator spoken dialogue systems (2000)
Marilyn Walker, Lynette Hirschman, John Aberdeen
The overall objective of the DARPA COMMUNICATOR project is to support rapid, cost-effective development of multi-modal speechenabled dialogue systems with advanced conversational capabilities, such...
The utility of elapsed time as a usability metric for spoken dialogue systems (1999)
Marilyn Walker, Julie Bol, Ace Kamm
It is commonly assumed that elapsed time is an important objective metric for evaluating the performance of spoken dialogue systems. However, our studies based on the PARADISE framework consistently...
Automatic prediction of problematic human-computer dialogues in How May I Help You (1999)
Irene Langkilde, Marilyn Walker, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Diane Litman
We apply machine learning methods to automatically identify and predict problematic human-computer dialogues in a corpus collected during a wizard override trial of the How May I Help You task. The...
Automatic prediction of problematic human-computer dialogues in How May I Help You (1999)
Irene Langkilde, Marilyn Walker, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Diane Litman
We report results on learning to automatically identify and predict problematic human-computer dialogues in a corpus collected during a wizard-override trial of the How May I Help You task. We show...
Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems (1999)
Satinder Singh Att, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Diane Litman, Marilyn Walker
Recently, a number of authors have proposed treating dialogue systems as Markov decision processes (MDPs). However, the practical application of MDP algorithms to dialogue systems faces a number of...
Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems (1999)
Satinder Singh Att, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Diane Litman, Marilyn Walker
Recently, a number of authors have proposed treating dialogue systems as Markov decision processes (MDPs). However, the practical application of MDP algorithms to dialogue systems faces a number of...
Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems (1999)
Satinder Singh Att, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Diane Litman, Marilyn Walker
Recently, a number of authors have proposed treating dialogue systems as Markov decision processes (MDPs). However, the practical application of MDP algorithms to dialogue systems faces a number of...
Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems (1999)
Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Diane Litman, Marilyn Walker
Recently, a number of authors have proposed treating dialogue systems as Markov decision processes (MDPs). However, the practical application of MDP algorithms to dialogue systems faces a number of...
Automatic Prediction of Problematic Human-Computer Dialogue in 'How May I Help You?' (1999)
Irene Langkilde, Marilyn Walker, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Diane Litman
We report results on learning to automatically identify and predict problematic human-computer dialogues in a corpus collected during a wizard-override trial of the How May I Help You task. We show...
Evaluating Competing Agent Strategies for a Voice Email Agent (1997)
Walker, Marilyn, Hindle, Donald, Fromer, Jeanne, Di Fabbrizio, Giuseppe, Mestel, Craig
This paper reports experimental results comparing a mixed-initiative to a system-initiative dialog strategy in the context of a personal voice email agent. To independently test the effects of dialog...
Evaluating competing agent strategies for a voice email agent (1997)
Marilyn Walker, Donald Hindle, Jeanne Fromer, Craig Mestel
This paper reports experimental results comparing a mixed-initiative to a system-initiative dialog strategy in the context of a personal voice email agent. To independently test the effects of dialog...
PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents (1997)
Marilyn Walker, Diane J. Litman, Ace A. Kamm, Alicia Abella
This paper presents PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation), a general framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents. The framework decouples task requirements from an agent's...
Word Order, Information Structure, and Centering in Turkish (1997)
Beryl Hoffman, Marilyn Walker, Ellen Prince, Aravind Joshi Oxford
this paper, I investigate the interaction between Centering Theory and word order in a "free" word order language, i.e. Turkish. In "free" word order languages, e.g. Czech,...
Evaluating competing agent strategies for a voice email agent (1997)
Marilyn Walker, Donald Hindle, Jeanne Fromer, Craig Mestel
This paper reports experimental results comparing a mixed-initiative to a system-initiative dialog strategy in the context of a personal voice email agent. To independently test the effects of dialog...
Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering (1996)
Walker, Marilyn, Iida, Masayo, Cote, Sharon
This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called {\sc centering}, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese so that it can be...
Centering in Japanese Discourse (1996)
Walker, Marilyn, Iida, Masayo, Cote, Sharon
In this paper we propose a computational treatment of the resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese discourse, using an adaptation of the centering algorithm. We are able to factor language-specific...
Centering in Japanese Discourse (APPEARED IN COLING90, Helsinki) (1996)
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
In this paper we propose a computational treatment of the resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese discourse, using an adaptation of the centering algorithm. We are able to factor language-specific...
Limited Attention and Discourse Structure (1996)
this paper. Thanks also to the two anonymous reviewers.
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation (1995)
Walker, Marilyn, Whittaker, Steve
Conversation between two people is usually of mixed-initiative, with control over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the transfer of control to...
The Role of Cognitive Modeling in Achieving Communicative Intentions (1994)
A discourse planner for (task-oriented) dialogue must be able to make choices about whether relevant, but optional information (for example, the "satellites" in an RST-based planner) should be...
Japanese discourse and the process of centering (1994)
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called CENTERING, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese so that it can be used in...
Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering (1994)
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called CENTERING, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese so that it can be used in...
The Role of Cognitive Modeling in Achieving Communicative Intentions (1994)
A discourse planner for (task-oriented) dialogue must be able to make choices about whether relevant, but optional information (for example, the "satellites" in an RST-based planner) should...
Japanese discourse and the process of centering (1994)
Marilyn Walker, Sharon Cotes, Masayo Iida T
This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called CENTERING, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese so that it can be used in...
Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering (1992)
Walker, Marilyn, Iida, Massayo, Cote, Sharon
This paper has two aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of discourse processing called CENTERING and apply it to discourse processing in Japanese, and (2) to provide some insights on the...
Centering in Japanese Discourse (1990)
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
In this paper we propose a computational treatment of the resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese discourse, using an adaptation of the centering algorithm. We are able to factor language-specific...
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation (1990)
Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Conversation between two people is usually of Mixed-Initiative, with Control over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the transfer of control to...
Mixed initiative in dialogue: An investigation into discourse segmentation (1990)
Conversation between two people is usually of MIXED-INITIATIVE, with CONTROL over the con-versation being transferred from one person to an-other. We apply a set of rules for the transfer of control...
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation (1990)
Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bs Qz
Conversation between two people is usually of MIXED-INITIATIVE, with CONTROL over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the transfer of control to...
When natural language is better than menus: A field study (1989)
Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Whereas many natural language researchers have identified ways in which natural language systems need to be augmented in order to make current natural language interactions more natural, most...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Colorado, 1987.
Natural Language Generation in Dialog Systems
Owen Rambow Srinivas, Srinivas Bangalore, Marilyn Walker
Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition technology have put the goal of naturally sounding dialog systems within reach. However, the improved speech recognition has brought to light a new...
Evaluating Competing Agent Strategies For A Voice Email Agent
Marilyn Walker, Donald Hindle, Jeanne Fromer, Craig Mestel
This paper reports experimental results comparing a mixedinitiative to a system-initiative dialog strategy in the context of a personal voice email agent. To independently test the effects of dialog...