LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2016
Specialized Topics - Mixed Initiative


PrimaryChu-Carroll and Brown, 1997 J. Chu-Carroll and M. Brown. (1997) "Tracking Initiative in Collaborative Dialogue Interactions". Proceedings of ACL 1997 .
SupplementaryEnglish 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.
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.
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
SupplementaryWalker & Whittaker, 1990M. Walker and S. Whittaker (1990) "Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation", ACL 1990.
SupplementaryYang and Heeman, 2007F. Yang and P. Heeman. Exploring Initiative Strategies Using Computer Simulation. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp Belgium, August 2007.