David R. Traum

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

This paper introduces the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9). This edition of the DSTC focuses on applying end-to-end dialog technologies for four distinct tasks in dialog systems,...

The Role of Social Dialogue and Errors in Robots

SCOUT: A Situated and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Dialogue Corpus

Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue

A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient Generation from Lexical-Conceptual Structure

Utterance units and grounding in spoken dialogue

Prediction of strategy and outcome as negotiation unfolds by using basic verbal and behavioral features

Using information state to improve dialogue move identification in a spoken dialogue system

Evaluation of an Integrated Authoring Tool for Building Advanced Question-Answering Characters

Detecting the Status of a Predictive Incremental Speech Understanding Model for Real-Time Decision-Making in a Spoken Dialogue System

Reinforcement Learning of Argumentation Dialogue Policies in Negotiation

From domain specification to virtual humans: an integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters

A "speech acts" approach to grounding in conversation

"yeah right": sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems

Creating spoken dialogue characters from corpora without annotations

Radiobot-CFF: a spoken dialogue system for military training

Modelling Grounding and Discourse Obligations Using Update Rules

Do You Want to Talk About It?: A First Step towards Emotion Integrated Dialogue