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Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Ideological Dialog
Amita Misra, Pranav Anand, Jean E Fox Tree +1
More and more of the information available on the web is dialogic, and a significant portion of it takes place in online forum conversations about current social and political topi…
Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue
Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker
Research on the structure of dialogue has been hampered for years because large dialogue corpora have not been available. This has impacted the dialogue research community's abilit…
Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative
Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang +2
Many genres of natural language text are narratively structured, a testament to our predilection for organizing our experiences as narratives. There is broad consensus that underst…
Automatically Training a Problematic Dialogue Predictor for a Spoken Dialogue System
A. Gorin, I. Langkilde-Geary, M. A. Walker +2
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to a large variety of information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue systems are def…
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
M. A. Walker
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method…