3 papers
cs.CL2026
Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue
Amandine Decker, Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breitholtz
We empirically investigate Question Under Discussion based modelling in naturalistic dialogue by studying whether the salience of generated potential questions predicts their subse…
cs.CL2025
"Wait, did you mean the doctor?": Collecting a Dialogue Corpus for Topical Analysis
Amandine Decker, Vincent Tourneur, Maxime Amblard +1
Dialogue is at the core of human behaviour and being able to identify the topic at hand is crucial to take part in conversation. Yet, there are few accounts of the topical organisa…
cs.CL2024
With a Little Help from my (Linguistic) Friends: Topic Segmentation of Multi-party Casual Conversations
Amandine Decker, Maxime Amblard
Topics play an important role in the global organisation of a conversation as what is currently discussed constrains the possible contributions of the participant. Understanding th…