Empirical Methods in Discourse: Interpretation and Generation
Papers from the 1995 AAAI Symposium
Johanna Moore and Marilyn Walker, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-95-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation: Goals of the Workshop / 1
Johanna Moore and Marilyn Walker
Automated Acquisition of Anaphora Resolution Strategies / 1
Chinatsu Aone and Scott William Bennett
Coding Schemes for Natural Language Dialogues / 8
Lars Arhenberg, Nils Dahlbäck, and Arne Jonsson
The Situated Behavior of MUD Back Channels / 14
Lynn Cherny
Message Understanding Conference (MUC) Tests of Discourse Processing / 21
Nancy A. Chinchor and Beth Sundheim
Problems for Reliable Discourse Coding Systems / 27
Sherri L. Condon and Claude G. Cech
Metrics for Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in a Spoken Language System / 34
Morena Danieli and Elisabetta Gerbino
N.b.: A Graphical User Interface For Annotating Spoken Dialogue / 40
Giovanni Flammia and Victor Zue
The Role of Computer--Computer Dialogues in Human--Computer Dialogue System Development / 47
Curry I. Guinn
An Empirical Approach to VP Ellipsis / 53
Daniel Hardt
Discourse and Dialogue Research: What Infrastructure Do We Need? / 58
Lynette Hirschman
Replicability of Transaction and Action Coding in the Map Task Corpus / 60
Amy Isard and Jean Carletta
An Empirical Methodology for Determining a Set of Coherence Relations / 67
Alistair Knott
The KNIGHT Experiments: Empirically Evaluating an Explanation Generation System / 74
Bruce W. Porter and James C. Lester
Development and Implementation of a Discourse Model for Newspaper Texts / 81
Elizabeth D. Liddy and Woojin Paik, and Mary McKenna
Developing Algorithms for Discourse Segmentation / 85
Diane J. Litman and Rebecca J. Passonneau
Using Discourse Analysis and Automatic Text Generation to Study Discourse Cue Usage / 92
Megan Moser and Johanna D. Moore
Extrasentential Resolution of Japanese Zero Pronouns Using Semantic and Pragmatic Constraints / 99
Hiromi Nakaiwa, Satoshi Shirai, Satoru Iehara, and Tsukasa Kawaoka
Discourse Structure in Spoken Language: Studies on Speech Corpora / 106
Christine H. Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg, and Barbara J. Grosz
Proofs as Discourse: An Empirical Study / 113
Jon Oberlander, Richard Cox, and Keith Stenning
From Corpus to Codings: Semi-Automating the Acquisition of Linguistic Features / 120
Michael O'Donnell
Some Experiments in Speech Act Prediction / 126
Norbert Reithinger
Conversation Acts, Interactional Structure, and Conversational Outcomes / 132
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Identifying the Mapping of Semantics Onto Language: Going Beyond the Text / 139
Donia Scott and Cecile Paris
Learning Domain-Specific Discourse Rules for Information Extraction / 143
Stephen Soderland and Wendy Lehnert
A Methodology for Extending Focusing Frameworks / 149
Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dialogue for an Automated Spoken Questionnaire / 156
Stephen Sutton, Brian Hansen, Terri Lander, David G. Novick, and Ronald Cole
A Discourse Analysis Approach to Structured Speech / 162
Lisa J. Stifelman
Empirical Methods in Discourse: Limits and Prospects / 168
Richmond H. Thomason and Pamela W. Jordan
DesignWorld: A Testbed for Discourse / 174
Marilyn Walker
Probabilistic Classifiers for Tracking Point of View / 181
Janyce Wiebe and Rebecca Bruce
Vocabulary-Management Profiles as Unlabelled Tree Diagrams of Discourse / 188
Gilbert Youmans
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