LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2016
Specialized Topics - Turn-taking


PrimaryGravano & Hirschberg,2011 A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, "Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue". Computer Speech and Language. Vol. 25(3), pages 601-634, July 2011.
Computational Models
SupplementarySelfridge and Heeman, 2009Ethan O. Selfridge and Peter A. Heeman. (2009). A Bidding Approach to Turn-Taking In 1st International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems.
SupplementaryRaux and Eskenazi, 2009A. Raux and M. Eskenazi. (2009) A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems. in Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2009.
Human-Human Cues in Controlled Dialog
SupplementaryFriedberg, 2011Friedberg. (2011) Turn-Taking Cues in a Human Tutoring Corpus, in Proceedings of ACL 2011.
SupplementaryGravano and Hirschberg, 2009Agustin Gravano and Julia Hirschberg. (2009) Backchannel-Inviting Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue. in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009.
SupplementaryCathcart et al., 2003Nicola Cathcart; Jean Carletta; Ewan Klein. (2003) A shallow model of back-channel continuers in spoken dialogue. In Proceedings of EACL-2003.
SupplementaryLevitan et al., 2011R. Levitan, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg. (2011) Entrainment in speech preceding backchannels. In Proceedings of ACL/HLT 2011.
Classic Articles
SupplementaryDuncan, 1972 Starkey Duncan. (1972) Some signals and rules for taking speaking turns in conversations Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 23(2): 283-292.
SupplementarySacks et al., 1974Harvey Sacks, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. (1974) A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation. Language 50(4):696-735.