Special Topic: Referring in Dialogue
This special topic focuses on how people achieve successful reference to objects and entities in dialogue interactions and some examples of recent implemented dialogue systems with referential skills.
Required Readings
- Conceptual Pacts and Lexical Choice in Conversation, Susan Brennan and Herbert Clark, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1996, Vol. 22, No. 6,1482-1493
- Reference Resolution in the Wild: How Addresses circumscribe referential domains in a natural, interactive problem-solving task (p. 148-153), Brown-Schmidt, S., Campana, E. & Tanenhaus, M. (2002), Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Situated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010) Trim, Ireland, July 2010.
- Learning to Interpret Utterances Using Dialogue History David DeVault and Matthew Stone, The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), Athens, Greece
Other Readings
- Referring as a collaborative process Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs, Cognition, 22 (1986) 1-39.
- Computational Interpretations of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions , Robert Dale and Ehud Reiter, Cognitive Science 19:233-263, 1995.