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Special Topic: Incremental Dialogue Processing

This special topic focuses on how dialogue systems can be made to process and respond to speech in real-time using incremental processing techniques.

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. Schlangen, David, and Gabriel Skantze. A general, abstract model of incremental dialogue processing. Dialogue & Discourse 2.1 (2011): 83-111.
  2. Yuya Chiba and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. 2025. Investigating the Impact of Incremental Processing and Voice Activity Projection on Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3687–3696, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Required Readings (for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))
  1. David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum, Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue in The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009), London, UK
  2. Nigel G. Ward and David DeVault. Challenges in building highly interactive dialogue systems. AI Magazine, 2017.
  3. Patrick Kahardipraja, Brielen Madureira, and David Schlangen. 2023. TAPIR: Learning Adaptive Revision for Incremental Natural Language Understanding with a Two-Pass Model. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 4173–4197, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  4. Yuya Chiba and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. 2025. Investigating the Impact of Incremental Processing and Voice Activity Projection on Spoken Dialogue Systems In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3687–3696, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Other Readings
  1. Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental understanding in human-computer dialogue and experimental evidence for advantages over nonincremental methods The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG 2007)
  2. Gabriel Skantze and David Schlangen Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2009.
  3. Skantze, Gabriel and Hjalmarsson, Anna, Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Dialogue Systems , Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference, September, 2010 best paper award
  4. Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason Williams Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition In SigDial 2011
  5. Kennington, Casey, Pierre Lison, and David Schlangen. Incremental Dialogue Management: Survey, Discussion, and Implications for HRI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00953 (2025).