LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2013
Specialized Topics - Mixed Initiative


PrimaryWalker & Whittaker, 1990M. Walker and S. Whittaker (1990) "Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation", ACL 1990.
SecondaryChu-Carroll and Brown, 1997 J. Chu-Carroll and M. Brown. (1997) "Tracking Initiative in Collaborative Dialogue Interactions". Proceedings of ACL 1997 .
SecondaryEnglish and Heeman, 2005M. English and P. Heeman. (2005) Learning mixed initiative dialog strategies by using reinforcement learning on both conversants. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 1011-1018.
SupplementaryStrayer,Heeman,Yang 2003 S. Strayer, P. Heeman, and F. Yang. (2003) Reconciling control and discourse structure. In J.van Kuppevelt and R.W.Smith, editors, Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Chapter 14, p. 305-323
SupplementaryMorbini et al, 2012Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert Rizzo. A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare. Demonstration in SIGdial 2012, the 13th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, South Korea, 2012.