Publications by David Traum

This file contains bibliographic citations and links to most of my papers. Most citations are stored as pdf or compressed (or gzipped) postscript files. Some citations also have on-line abstracts and FTP addresses.
(Last change: June 24, 2008. Entries marked have been added since April 9 2008)

2008

• Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, and David Traum, From Domain Specification to Virtual Humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters to be presented at Interspeech 2008, September 2008.
• David Traum , Stacy Marsella , Jonathan Gratch , Jina Lee , and Arno Hartholt, Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents to appear in 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 200.
• David DeVault, David Traum, and Ron Artstein, Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems In proceedings of The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2008), June, 2008.
• Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum Evaluation Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models In proceedings of The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2008), June, 2008.
• Antonio Roque and David Traum, Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding In proceedings of The 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2008), June, 2008.
• David DeVault, David Traum, and Ron Artstein, Practical Grammar-Based NLG from Examples The Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), June, 2008.
• David Traum Computational Models of Non-Cooperative dialogue Abstract of invited talk at LONDIAL 2008 Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, May 2008.
• Jina Lee, David DeVault, Stacy Marsella, and David Traum, Thoughts on FML: Behavior Generation in the Virtual Human Communication Architecture, presented at FML 2008 "Why Conversational Agents do what they do Functional Representations for Generating Conversational Agent Behavior", The First Functional Markup Language Workshop at AAMAS, May 2008.
• Field Testing of an Interactive Question-Answering Character to be presented at the ELRA Workshop on Evaluation, LREC 2008.
• What would you ask a conversational agent? Observations of Human-Agent dialogues in a museum setting, to be presented at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2008.
• Arno Hartholt, Thomas Russ, David Traum, Eduard Hovy and Susan Robinson, A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture, to be presented at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2008.
• David Traum, Talking to Virtual Humans: Dialogue Models and Methodologies for Embodied Conversational Agents" In I Wachsmuth and G Knoblich (Ed.), Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans, pp. 296-309, 2008. pre-release version
• D. R. Traum, W. Swartout, J Gratch, S Marsella, "A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-team Interaction", in Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue Springer, Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker, Eds, pp. 45--67, 2008. pre-release version

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  2007

• B. Martinovski, D. Traum, S. Marsella, Rejection of Empathy in Negotiation, Group Decision and Negotiation, 16:61--76, 2007. Pre-release version
• P. Kenny, A. Hartholt, J. Gratch, W. Swartout, D. Traum, S. Marsella, D. Piepol Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments in proceedings of I/ITSEC, Nov. 2007. Best Paper Nominee
• D Jan, D Herrera, B Martinovski, D Novick and D Traum A computational Model of Culture-specific Conversational Behavior in proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, pp. 45--56, September, 2007.
• J Lee, S Marsella, D Traum, J Gratch, and B Lance The Rickel Gaze Model: A Window on the Mind of a Virtual Human, in proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, pp. 296--303, September, 2007.
• D. Traum, A. Roque, A. Leuski, P. Georgiou, J. Gerten, B.Martinovski, S. Narayanan, S. Robinson, and A. Vaswani. Hassan: A virtual human for tactical questioning In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 71-74, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.
• Antonio Roque and David Traum A Model of Compliance and Emotion for Potentially Adversarial Dialogue Agents In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 35-38, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.
• Hua Ai, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, David Traum. Using Information State to Improve Dialogue Move Identification in a Spoken Dialogue System In proceedings of Interspeech 2007 conference, pp. 154--157, August 2007.
• S Gandhe and D Traum, Creating Spoken Dialogue Characters from Corpora without Annotations in proceedings of the Interspeech 2007 conference, pp. 2201--2204, August, 2007.
• Patrick Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, David Traum, Stacy Marsella, Bill Swartout The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans presented at the Intelligent Systems Demonstrations program, AAAI, July 2007, pp. 1970--1971, July 2007.
• D. Jan and D. Traum Dynamic Movement and Positioning of Embodied Agents in Multiparty Conversations, in proceedings of ACL 2007 workshop on Embodied Language Processing, pp. 59-66, June 2007.
• B Martinovski, D Novick, D Traum, D Herrera and D Jan, Simulation and Evaluation of Virtual Human Non-Verbal Interaction, presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden 2007.
• D Jan and D Traum, Dynamic Movement and Positioning of Embodied Agents in Multiparty Conversations in proceedings of Sixth international joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent systems (AAMAS), Hawaii, 2007.
• S Gandhe and D Traum, First Steps toward Dialogue Modelling from an Un-annotated Human-Human Corpus IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Hyderabad, India, 2007.

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  2006

• M. Core, D. Traum, H. C. Lane, W. Swartout, S Marsella, J. Gratch, and M van Lent, Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans, in Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation, 82:685--701, 2006.
• W. Swartout, J. Gratch, R. Hill, E Hovy, S Marsella, J. Rickel, D Traum, Towards Virtual Humans, AI Magazine, 27:96--108, 2006.
• A Leuski, B Kennedy, R Patel, and D Traum, ASKING QUESTIONS TO LIMITED DOMAIN VIRTUAL CHARACTERS: HOW GOOD DOES SPEECH RECOGNITION HAVE TO BE? 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Fl, 2006.
• S Robinson, A Roque, A Vaswani, C Hernandez, B Millspaugh, and D Traum, Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Virtual Reality Call for Fire Training 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Fl, 2006. Best paper award
• R Hill, J M Kim, A S Gordon, D Traum, S Gandhe, S. King, S Lavis and Scott Rocher, AXL.Net: Web-enabled Case Method Instruction for Accelerating Tacit Knowledge Acquisition in Leaders 25th Army Sceince Conference, Orlando, Fl, 2006.
• A Roque and D Traum, An Information State-Based Dialogue Manager for Call for Fire Dialogues The 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney Australia, 2006.
• A Leuski, R Patel, D Traum, and B Kennedy, Building Effective Question Answering Characters 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney Australia, 2006.
• R Patel, A Leuski, and D Traum, Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06), Marina del Rey, 2006.
• A Roque, H Ai, and D Traum, Evaluation of an Information State-Based Dialogue Manager, Brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Potsdam, Germany, 2006.
• A Roque, A Leuski, V Rangarajan, S Robinson, S Vaswani, S Narayanan, and D Traum ``Radiobot-CFF: A Spoken Dialogue System for Military Training, Interspeech,2006 Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.
• J Tepperman, D Traum, and S Narayanan, ``Yeah right: Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems,'' Yeah right: Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.
• A Leuski, J Pair, D Traum, P. J. McNerney, P Georgiou, R Patel. How to Talk to a Hologram International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2006), January 2006.
• Sudeep Gandhe, Andrew Gordon, and David Traum Improving Question-Answering with Linking Dialogues, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2006), January 2006.
• Pierre Dillenbourg and David Traum, Sharing solutions: persistence and grounding in multi-modal collaborative problem solving. in Journal of the Learning Sciences, 15:121--151, 2006.

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  2005

• David Traum, William Swartout, Stacy Marsella, and Jonathan Gratch Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing under Crisis in proceedings of 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 2005.
• Dusan Jan and David R. Traum Dialog Simulation for Background Characters in proceedings of 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 2005.
• David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Patrick Kenny, Eduard Hovy, Shri Narayanan, Ed Fast, Bilyana Martinovski, Rahul Baghat, Susan Robinson, Andrew Marshall, Dagen Wang, Sudeep Gandhe and Anton Leuski Dealing with Doctors: A Virtual Human for Non-team Interaction in proceedings of Sigdial 05, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2005.
• David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, and Stacy Marsella, Virtual Humans for non-team interaction training in proceedings of the AAMAS-05Workshop on Creating Bonds with Humanoids, July 2005.
• Youngjun Kim, Randall W. Hill, Jr., and David R. Traum, Controlling the Focus of Perceptual Attention in Embodied Conversational Agents, in proceedings of the the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, July 2005.
• David Traum Miscommunication: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly presentation at Symposium on Miscommunication at Cogsci2005 , July 2005
• Robert Belvin; Emil Ettelaie; Sudeep Gandhe; Panayiotis Georgiou; Kevin Knight; Daniel Marcu; Scott Millward; Shrikanth Narayanan; Howard Neely; David Traum, Transonics: A Practical Speech-to-Speech Translator for English-Farsi Medical Dialogs Demo presented at ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, June 2005.
• Youngjun Kim, Randall W. Hill, Jr., and David R. Traum, A Computational Model of Dynamic Perceptual Attention for Virtual Humans, presented at the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, May 2005.
• Bilyana Martinovski, David Traum, and Stacy Marsella Rejection of empathy and its linguistic manifestations in Procedings of Conference on Formal and Informal Negotiation, FINEXIN, Canada: Ottawa, May, 2005.
• Anton Nijholt & David Traum The virtuality Continuum revisited", presented at CHI 2005 Workshop on the virtuality continuum revisited. April, 2005.
• W. Swartout, J. Gratch, R. Hill, E. Hovy, R. Lindheim, S. Marsella, J. Rickel, D. Traum, Simulation meets Hollywood: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Story and Character for Immersive Simulation , in Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Eds. Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro. (pre-release version)

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  2004

• Sudeep Gandhe, Andrew Gordon, Anton Leuski, David R Traum, and Douglas W. Oard, First steps toward linking Dialogues: mediating between free-text questions and pre-recorded video answers presented at the Army Science Conference, 2004.
• Jigish Patel, Robert Parker, and David Traum Simulation of Small Group Discussions for Middle Level of Detail Crowds poster presented at Army Science Conference, 2004
• S. Narayanan, S. Ananthakrishnan, R. Belvin, E. Ettelaie, S. Gandhe, S. Ganjavi, P. G. Georgiou, C. M. Hein, S. Kadambe, K. Knight, D. Marcu, H. E. Neely, N. Srinivasamurthy, D. Traum, and D. Wang, The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient interviews, in working notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on in working notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, pp 97--103, 2004.
• William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall Hill, Eduard Hovy, Stacy Marsella, Jeff Rickel, David Traum Toward Virtual Humans in working notes of the AAAI Fall symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research, 2004
• Jigish Patel, Robert Parker and David Traum, Small group discussion simulation for middle level of detail crowds Poster paper in proceedings of Catalog: 8th workshop on semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, pages 160--161, 2004.
• Traum, D.R., Marsella, S., Gratch, J. Emotion and Dialogue in the MRE Virtual Humans. Proceedings of the Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (Kloster, Irsee, June 2004).
• Muller, T.J., Hartholt, A., Marsella, S., Gratch, J., Traum, D.R. Do You Want To Talk About It? A First Step Towards Emotion Integrated Dialogue. Proceedings of Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2004).
• David R. Traum, Susan Robinson, Jens Stephan Evaluation of multi-party virtual reality dialogue interaction, In Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), pp. 1699-1702.
• Susan Robinson, Bilyana Martinovski, Saurabh Garg, Jens Stephan, David R. Traum, Issues in corpus development for multi-party multi-modal task-oriented dialogue, in Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), pp. 1707-1710.
• Saurabh Garg, Bilyana Martinovski, Susan Robinson, Jens Stephan, Joel Tetreault, David R. Traum, Evaluation of Transcription and Annotation tools for a Multi-modal, Multi-party dialogue corpus, in Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), pp. 2163-2166.
• Nizar Habash , Bonnie Dorr , David Traum , Hybrid Natural Language Generation from Lexical Conceptual Structures , Machine Translation, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81 - 128.
• David Traum, Issues in multi-party dialogues, in Advances in Agent Communication Ed. F. Dignum, Springer-Verlag LNAI 2922 pp. 201-211, 2004. (pre-release version)

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  2003

• Randall W. Hill, Jr., Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Jeff Rickel, William Swartout, and David Traum, Virtual Humans in the Mission Rehearsal Exercise System, KI special issue on Embodied Conversational Agents, 4/03:5-10, 2003. (pre-release version)
• S. Narayanan, S. Ananthakrishnan, R. Belvin, E. Ettaile, S. Ganjavi, P. Georgiou, C. Hein, S. Kadambe, K. Knight, D. Marcu, H. Neely, N. Srinivasamurthy, D. Traum and D. Wang, Transonics: A speech to speech system for English-Persian Interactions, Proc. IEEE ASRU, (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands), December, 2003.
• Bilyana Martinovski, David Traum, Susan Robinson, and Saurabh Garg Functions and Patterns of Speaker and Addressee Identifications in Distributed Complex Organizational Tasks Over Radio, in Proceedings of Diabruck (7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue), pp. 193-194, September 2003.
• Bilyana Martinovski and David Traum Breakdown in Human-machine interaction: the error is the clue, in proceedings of the ISCA tutorial and research workshop on Error handling in dialogue systems, pp. 11-16, August 2003.
• David Traum, Jeff Rickel, Jonathan Gratch, and Stacy Marsella, Negotiation over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training, in proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 441-448, July, 2003. Best Innovative System/Application Paper Award
• David Traum, Michael Fleischman, and Eduard Hovy, NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment in Papers from the AAAI spring symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, pp. 151-158, March 2003.
• David Traum, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions and Answers for Dialogue Agents in proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp 380-394, January 2003.
• David Traum and Staffan Larsson, The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management to appear in Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Ed. Jan van Kuppevelt and Ronnie Smith, Kluwer, 2003. (pre-release version)
• David R. Traum, Carl F. Andersen, Yuan Chong, Darsana Josyula, Yoshi Okamoto, Khemdut Purang, Michael O'Donovan-Anderson, Don Perlis Representations of Dialogue State for Domain and Task Independent Meta-Dialogue in Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 3(D):125--152, 1999. pre-release pdf

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  2002

• Jeff Rickel, Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch, Randall Hill, David Traum, and William Swartout, Towards a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(4):32--38, 2002.
• Ideas on Multi-layer Dialogue Management for Multi-party, Multi-conversation, Multi-modal Communication: Extended Abstract of Invited Talk, in Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected Papers from the Twelth CLIN Meeting ,Ed. Mari"et Theune, Anton Nijholt and Hendi Hondorp, Editions RODOPI B.V., pages 1--7, 2002.
• David Traum and Jeff Rickel, Embodied Agents for Multi-party Dialogue in Immersive Virtual World in proceedings of the first International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), pp. 766-773, July 2002. (updates earlier versions presented at Agents 2001 Workshop on Representing, Annotating, and Evaluating Non-Verbal and Verbal Communicative Acts to Achieve Contextual Embodied Agents, May 2001, and IJCAI workshop on Knowledge And Reasoning In Practical Dialogue Systems (Seattle, USA), August 2001)

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  2001

• Mari Olson, David Traum, Carol Van-ess Dykema, and Amy Weinberg, Implicit Cues for Explicit Generation: Using Telicity as a Cue for Tense Structure in a Chinese to English MT System, in proceedings Machine Translation Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), September 2001.
• Rossana Damiano and David Traum, Anticipatory planning for decision-theoretic grounding and task advancement in mixed-initiative dialogue systems position paper in proceedings NAACL 2001 workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems pp 75-76, 2001.
• Beatrice Ligorio, Giuseppe Mininni and David Traum Interlocution scenarios for problem solving in an educational mud environment in proceedings 1st European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Euro-CSCL 2001), March 2001. pdf

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  2000

• David R. Traum, 20 Questions for Dialogue Act Taxonomies, in Journal of Semantics, 17(1):7--30, 2000.
• Staffan Larsson and David Traum, Information state and dialogue management in the TRINDI Dialogue Move Engine Toolkit, Natural Language Engineering 6(3-4):323-340, 2000. pre-release version
• Kristiina Jokinen, David Sadek, and David Traum, ``Introduction to Special Issue on Collaboration, Cooperation and Conflict in Dialogue Systems, In International Journal of Human Computer Studies 53(6):867--870, 2000.
• Jens Allwood, David Traum, and Kristiina Jokinen, Cooperation, Dialog, and Ethics, In International Journal of Human Computer Studies 53(6):871--914, 2000.
• Colin Matheson, Massimo Poesio, and David Traum, Modelling Grounding and Discourse Obligations Using Update Rules, in Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2000), May 2000.
• David Traum and Nizar Habash , Generation from Lexical Conceptual Structures, in proceedings of the Third Workshop On Interlinguas And Interlingual Approaches, April 2000.
• Mari Olsen, David Traum, Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Amy Weinberg, Ron Dolan, Telicity as a cue to discourse structure in Chinese-English machine translation in proceedings of the Third Workshop On Interlinguas And Interlingual Approaches, April 2000. Also appears as University of Maryland CS-TR-4248
• David Traum, P. Bohlin, J. Bos, S. Ericson, S. Larsson, I. Lewin, C. Matheson, and D. Milward, Dialogue Dynamics and Levels of Interaction Trindi Project Deliverable,'' Trindi Project Deliverable D3.1, 2000.
• A Zaenen, S., Larsson, A. Sandor, and D. Traum, D., Information State Revision and Implicit Dialogue Moves in Instructional Texts Trindi Project Deliverable D3.3, 2000.

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  1999

• David Traum, Johan Bos, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson, Ian Lewin, Colin Matheson, and Massimo Poesio, A model of dialogue moves and information state revision Trindi Project Deliverable D2.1, 1999.pdf
• Staffan Larsson, Peter Bohlin, Johan Bos, and David Traum, TrindiKit 1.0 (Manual)'', Trindi Project Deliverable D2.2, 1999.pdf
• Pierre Dillenbourg and David Traum, Does a shared screen make a shared solution?, to be presented at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL'99), December 1999.
• David R. Traum Computational Models of Grounding in Collaborative Systems, in working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication, p. 124-131, November, 1999.
• D. Perlis, K. Purang, D. Purushothaman, C. Andersen, and D. Traum Modeling Time and Meta-Reasoning In Dialogue Via Active Logic, in working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication,pp. 93-99, November, 1999.
• David R. Traum and Carl F. Andersen,Representations of Dialogue State for Domain and Task Independent Meta-Dialogue, in proceedings of the IJCAI'99 Workshop on Knowledge And Reasoning In Practical Dialogue Systems, pp. 113--120, August 1999.
• K. Purang, Darsana Purushothaman, David Traum, Carl Andersen, and Don Perlis, Practical Reasoning and Plan Execution with Active Logic, in proceedings of the IJCAI'99 Workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality, pp 30--38, July 1999.
• Carl Andersen, David Traum, K. Purang, Darsana Purushothaman, and Don Perlis, Mixed Initiative Dialogue and Intelligence via Active Logic, in proceedings of the AAAI'99 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, pp. 60--67, July 1999.
• David R. Traum and Christine H. Nakatani, A Two-level Approach to Coding Dialogue for Discourse Structure: Activities of the 1998 Working Group on Higher-level Structures, in proceedings of the ACL'99 Workshop Towards Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, pp 101--108, June 1999.
• David R. Traum, 20 Questions for Dialogue Act Taxonomies, invited paper presented at the, Amstelogue'99 Workshop on on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, May 1999.
• Massimo Poesio, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson, Colin Matheson, and David Traum, Annotating Conversations for Information State Updates, presented at the, Amstelogue'99 Workshop on on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, May 1999.
• David R. Traum, Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents, in Michael Wooldridge and Anand Rao, editors, "Foundations And Theories Of Rational Agents", Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 169--201, 1999. pdf
• Mark Core, Masato Ishizaki, Johanna Moore, Christine Nakatani, Nobert Reithinger, David Traum, and Syun Tutiya editors, The Report of The Third Workshop of the Discourse Resource Initiative, Chiba Univeristy and Kazusa Academia Hall, Technical Report No.3 CC-TR-99-1, Chiba Corpus Project, 1999.
• R. Cooper, S. Larsson, C. Matheson, M. Poesio, D. Traum, Coding Instructional Dialogue for Information States Trindi Project Deliverable D1.1.pdf
• Christine Nakatani and David Traum, Coding discourse structure in dialogue (version 1.0). Technical Report UMIACS-TR-99-03, University of Maryland. pdf
• M. Baker, T. Hansen, R. Joiner and D. Traum, ``The role of grounding in collaborative learning tasks'', in Pierre Dillenbourg, editor, ``Collaborative Learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches'', Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., pages 31--63, 1999.
• R. Ploetzner, P. Dillenbourg, M. Preier and D. Traum, ``Learning by explaining to oneself and to others'', in Pierre Dillenbourg, editor, ``Collaborative Learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches'', Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., pages 103--121, 1999.

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  1998

• Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash, and David Traum, A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficienty Generation from Lexical-Conceptual Structure, presented at 3rd Biannual conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-98), October 1998. Also appears as University of Maryland CS-TR-3934.
• David R. Traum and Pierre Dillenbourg, Towards a Normative Model of Grounding in Collaboration, in working notes, ESSLLI-98 workshop on Mutual Knowledge, Common Ground and Public Information,pp. 52-55, August 1998.
• Michael Baker, Richard Joiner, David Traum and Tia Hansen, Grounding for Intersubjectivity and Learning (Pdf file), presented at the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), June 1998. Also appears as CNRS UMR GRIC COAST Research Report CR-15/98
• David R. Traum, `` On Clark and Schaefer's Contribution Model and its applicability to Human-Computer Collaboration, in proceedings of COOP'98 Workshop on Use of Clark's Models of Language for the design of Cooperative Systems, May 1998.
• Massimo Poesio and David Traum, Towards an Axiomatization of Dialogue Acts, In J. Hulstijn and A. Nijholt (eds.), Proceedings of the Twente Workshop on the Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues (13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology), Enschede, pp., 207--222, May 1998.

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  1997

• Massimo Poesio and David R. Traum, Representing Conversation Acts in a Unified Semantic/Pragmatic Framework, in working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November, 1997.
• P. Dillenbourg, P. Jermann, D. Schneider, D. Traum, and C. Buiu, The design of MOO agents: Implications from a study on multi-modal collaborative problem solving, in proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 97), Kobe, Japan, pages 15-22, August 1997. html version
• P. Dillenbourg, L Montandon and D Traum, ``Does text-based virtual space impact on collaboration?'', in Proceedings of the Workshop on Collaborative Learning/Working Support System with Networking, 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Kobe, Japan, 1997.
• P. Dillenbourg and D. Traum, The role of a whiteboard in a distributed cognitive system., presented at the Swiss Workshop on collaborative and distributive systems. Lausanne, Switzerland, May 1997. rtf version
• David Traum and Peter Heeman. Utterance Units in Spoken Dialogue. In Processing in Spoken Language Systems, Ed. Elisabeth Maier, Marion Mast, and Susann LuperFoy, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pages 125--140, 1997. abstract
• Massimo Poesio and David Traum, Conversational Actions and Discourse Situations, Computational Intelligence, 13(3):309--347, 1997. Also appears as Research paper HCRC/RP-92, HCRC University of Edinburgh. abstract
• David R. Traum, A Reactive-Deliberative Model of Dialogue Agency in Intelligent Agents III -- Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-96) Ed. J.P. Muller and M. J. Wooldridge and N. R. Jennings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pages 157--171, (1997).
• David R Traum ``Report on Multiparty Dialogue sub-group on Forward-looking Communicative Function'', in Standards for Dialogue Coding in Natural Language Processing, Dagstuhl-Seminar Report no. 167. February, 1997.

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  1996

• David R. Traum, Review of Spoken Natural Language Dialogue Systems: A Practical Approach by Ronnie Smith and D. Richard Hipp, Computational Linguistics 22(1):430-434, 1996.
• David R. Traum, Lenhart K. Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nathaniel G. Martin, Marc N. Light, Chung Hee Hwang, Peter A. Heeman, George M. Ferguson and James F. Allen, Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS-93 Conversation System, in International Journal of Expert Systems 9(1):173-223, 1996. Also appears as TRAINS Technical Note 96-4 and TR 633, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, August 1996. abstract
• David Traum and Peter Heeman. Utterance Units and Grounding in Spoken Dialogue. Proceedings ICSLP, October, 1996. abstract and multi-media examples
• Pierre Dillenbourg, David Traum & Daniel Schneider Grounding in Multi-modal Task-Oriented Collaboration, in proceedings of the EuroAI&Education Conference, September 1996.
• David Traum and Pierre Dillenbourg , Miscommunication in Multi-modal Collaboration, In working notes of the AAAI Workshop on Detecting, Repairing, And Preventing Human--Machine Miscommunication, pages 37-46, August 1996. abstract
• David R. Traum, Conversational Agency: The Trains-93 Dialogue Manager In proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 11:Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, pages 1-11, June 1996. abstract

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  1995

• Massimo Poesio and David Traum, A Multi-Purpose Model of Conversational Context, In Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Context in Natural Language Processing , pages 103--111, August 1995. abstract

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  1994

• A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation, TR 545 and Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, December 1994. abstract
• David R. Traum and James F. Allen Towards A Formal Theory of Repair in Plan Execution and Plan Recognition In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, September 1994. abstract
• David R. Traum and James F. Allen Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-94), pages 1--8, June 1994. abstract
• James F. Allen, Lenhart K. Schubert, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel G.Martin, Bradford W. Miller, Massimo Poesio, and David R. Traum, The TRAINS project: A case study in building a conversational planning agent," Trains TN 92-1 (Also TR 532), Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, September 1994.abstract
• David R. Traum, James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Peter A. Heeman, Chung-Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Nathaniel Martin, Massimo Poesio, and Lenhart K. Schubert, Integrating Natural Language Understanding and Plan Reasoning in the TRAINS-93 Conversation System, AAAI Spring Symposium on Active NLP, 21-23 March, 1994.abstract

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  pre-1994

• Rhetorical Relations, Action and Intentionality in Conversation In Proceedings ACL SIG Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, pages 132--135, June 1993. abstract
• Derek Gross, James F. Allen and David R. Traum, "The Trains 91 Dialogues", TN 92-1, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester, June 1993. Task description, Plain text dialogues, abstract
• David R. Traum, Mental State in the TRAINS-92 Dialogue Manager, In Working Notes AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning about Mental States: Formal Theories \& Applications, pages 143--149, March 1993. abstract
• David R. Traum and Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, Conversation Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue, In Computational Intelligence, 8(3):575--599, 1992. Also appears as TR 425, Computer Science Dept., U. Rochester. abstract
• David R. Traum and James F. Allen, A Speech Acts Approach to Grounding in Conversation, In Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-92), pages 137-40, October 1992.abstract
• David R. Traum and James F. Allen, Causative Forces in Multi-Agent Planning, In Y Demazeau and J. P. Muller, editors, Decentralized A.I. 2. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., pages 89-105, 1991. abstract

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