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Limited Attention and Discourse Structure
Marilyn A. Walker
This squib examines the role of limited attention in a theory of discourse structure and proposes a model of attentional state that relates current hierarchical theories of discour…
The Effect of Resource Limits and Task Complexity on Collaborative Planning in Dialogue
Marilyn A. Walker
This paper shows how agents' choice in communicative action can be designed to mitigate the effect of their resource limits in the context of particular features of a collaborative…
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation
Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker
Conversation between two people is usually of mixed-initiative, with control over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the tra…
Discourse and Deliberation: Testing a Collaborative Strategy
Marilyn A. Walker
A discourse strategy is a strategy for communicating with another agent. Designing effective dialogue systems requires designing agents that can choose among discourse strategies.…
Redundancy in Collaborative Dialogue
Marilyn A. Walker
In dialogues in which both agents are autonomous, each agent deliberates whether to accept or reject the contributions of the current speaker. A speaker cannot simply assume that a…