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Special Topic: Multiparty Dialogue

Most dialogue systems act as a single entity engaged in dialogue with a single user. This vastly simplifies issues like turn-taking, or addressee recognition. In the more general case, there can be more than two participants, who could be either human or system.

Required Readings

  1. David Traum Issues in multi-party dialogues, in Advances in Agent Communication Ed. F. Dignum, Springer-Verlag LNAI 2922 pp 201-211, 2004.
  2. Bohus, D, Horvitz, E. (2009) Models for Multiparty Engagement in Open-World Dialog, in Proceedings of SIGdial '09, London, UK SIGdial'09 best paper award
  3. Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, Mathieu Morey, Farah Benamara, Stergos Afantenos. Discourse Structure and Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Dialogue: the STAC Corpus. 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia. pp.2721-2727.
  4. Ananya Ganesh, Martha Palmer, and Katharina Kann. 2023. A Survey of Challenges and Methods in the Computational Modeling of Multi-Party Dialog. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI (NLP4ConvAI 2023), pages 140–154, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Other Readings
  1. Novick, D., Walton, L., and Ward, K. (1996). Contribution graphs in multiparty conversations, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-96), Philadelphia, PA, October, 1996, 53-56.
  2.  Ishizaki, M. and T. Kato (1998) Exploring the Characteristics of Multi-Party Dialogue, In Proc. of the 17th COLING-ACL'98, pp.583-589
  3. Carletta, J., Anderson, A. H., & Garrod, S. (2002). Seeing eye to eye: an account of grounding and understanding in work groups. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 9(1), 1-20, March. Invited paper for the special issue entitled "Towards Sciences of Linguistic Communication". ISSN 13417924
  4. Padilha, E. and Carletta, J. C. A Simulation of Small Group Discussion. Semdial-2002 EDILOG, Edinburgh, 2002.
  5. Michael Kearns, Charles Isbell, Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, and Jessica Howe. CobotDS: A Spoken Dialogue System for Chat. AAAI 2002.
  6. Natasa Jovanovic and Rieks op den Akker Towards automatic addressee identification in multi-party dialogues Sigdial 2004
  7. Jonathan Ginzburg and Raquel Fernandez. 2005. Scaling up from Dialogue to Multilogue: Some Principles and Benchmarks. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2005), pages 231-238, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  8. Reinsch Jr, N. Lamar, Jeanine Warisse Turner, And Catherine H. Tinsley. Multicommunicating: A Practice Whose Time Has Come?. Academy of Management Review 33.2 (2008): 391-403.
  9. Rieks op den Akker and David Traum, A comparison of addressee detection methods for multiparty conversations, in proceedings of Diaholmia 2009: the 13th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009.
  10. Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2009: the 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue, pages 217–224, Queen Mary University of London, September 2009.
  11. Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak, Disentangling Chat. Computational Linguistics 2010 36 (3): 389-409.
  12. David Traum, Cassidy Henry, Stephanie Lukin, Ron Artstein, Felix Gervits, Kimberly Pollard, Claire Bonial, Su Lei, Clare Voss, Matthew Marge, Cory Hayes and Susan Hill Dialogue Structure Annotation for Multi-Floor Interaction in Proceedings of the LREC 2018 conference.
  13. Mahajan, Khyati, and Samira Shaikh. On the need for thoughtful data collection for multi-party dialogue: A survey of available corpora and collection methods. Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of the special interest group on discourse and dialogue. 2021.
  14. Jia-Chen Gu, Chongyang Tao, and Zhen-Hua Ling. Who says what to whom: A survey of multi- party conversations. In Lud De Raedt, editor, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-22, pages 5486–5493. International Joint Confer- ences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 7 2022b. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2022/768. URL https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/768. Survey Track.