Discourse and Dialogue
definition: A Discourse is a piece of language including more than one sentence. A Dialogue is a linguistic exchange involving more than one participant. Discourse and dialogue therefore encompasses almost all non-local phenomena in language, but in particular discourse coherence, anaphoric dependencies, dialogue structure and the relation between questions and answers. The most obvious practical application in this area is dialogue systems and, more recently, spoken dialogue systems.
See also the corresponding HLT Survey chapter: http://www.lt-world.org/HLT_Survey/ltw-chapter6-1.pdf
related project(s):
- The Rochester Interactive Planning System (TRIPS)
- Communicator
- Task Oriented Instructional Dialogue (TRINDI)
- Air Travel Information Service (ATIS)
- SmartKom
- VERBMOBIL
- Specification, Interaction and Reconfiguration in Dialogue Understanding Systems (SIRIDUS)
- Talk and Look - Tools for Ambient Linguistic Knowledge (TALK)
- Natural Spoken Dialogue and Interactive Planning (TRAINS)
related organisation(s):
- Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial)
- Nuance Communications, Inc.
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- MITRE Corporation
- RIALIST
- Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group (ZAS)
- Philips Speech Processing
- Lucent Technologies
- The Dialogue Working Group
related person(s):
- Wolfgang Wahlster
- Robin Cooper
- David R. Traum
- James F. Allen
- Massimo Poesio
- Norbert Reithinger
- Johanna D. Moore
- Jonathan Ginzburg
related system(s) / resource(s):
- AUGUST
- CLARISSA
- Nuance Products
- SymDialog
- TrueDialogue
relevant source(s):
related publication(s):
Attention, Intention, and the Structure of Discourse.
Grosz, B. J. and C. L. Sidner.
Computational Linguistics. 12 (3). 1986. 175--204.
Intentions in Communication. Cohen, Philip R. and Morgan, Jerry and Pollack, Martha E.
The M. I. T. Press. System Development Foundation Benchmark Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1990.
Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation.
Wahlster, Wolfgang.
Springer. Berlin. 2000.
Dialogue Games.
Carlson, Lauri.
D. Reidel Publishing Company. Synthese Language Library. Dordrecht/Boston/London. 1985.