Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing
AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium Series
Stanford University
March 23-25
Tentative Schedule (with links to papers)
Monday, 23 March 1998
9:00 Session: Tutorial by Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research & Technology Center (Chair: Jennifer Chu-Carroll)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Part I of Session: Discourse Operators/Part II of Session: Referent Resolution (Chair: Janyce Wiebe)
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Part I of Session: Feature Extraction/Part II of Session: Information Extraction (Chair: Christine Nakatani)
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Session: Discussion (Moderator: Julia Hirschberg)
5:30 End of Sessions
Evening Opening Reception
Tuesday, 24 March, 1998
9:00 Tutorial by Andreas Stolcke, SRI (Chair: Nancy Green)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Part I of Session: Dialogue Act Prediction/Part II: Dialogue Act Recognition (Chair: Peter Heeman)
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Predicting DAMSL Utterance Tags.
Mark Core
- Using Unsupervised Learning for Engineering of Spoken Dialogues.
Jens-Uwe Moeller (CANCELLED)
- A Statistical Model for Discourse Act Recognition in Dialogue
Interactions.
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
- Computing Dialogue Acts from Features with Transformation-Based
Learning.
Ken Samuel, Sandra Carberry, and K. Vijay-Shanker
- Dialog Act Modeling for Conversational Speech.
Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Noah
Coccaro, Daniel Jurafsky, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, Klaus
Ries, Paul Taylor, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Part I of Session: Discourse Cues/Part II of Session: Discourse Segmentation (Chair: Diane Litman)
- Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage.
Barbara Di Eugenio and Johanna Moore
- Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog.
Peter Heeman, Donna Byron, and James Allen
- Clarity: Automatic Discourse and Dialogue Anlysis for a Speech and
Natural Language Processing System.
Michael Finke, Maria Lapata, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin,
Laura Mayfield-Tomokiyo, Thomas Polzin, Klaus Ries, Alex Waibel,
and Klaus Zechner
- Using Machine Learning to Identify Intonational Segments.
Julia Hirschberg and Christine Nakatani
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Session: discussion (Moderator: Sandra Carberry)
5:30 End of Sessions
Evening Plenary Session (representatives: Johanna Moore, Susann Luperfoy)
Wednesday, 25 March, 1998
9:00 Part I of Session: Evaluation/Part II of Session: Annotation (Chair: Susann Luperfoy)
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Estimating the Effectiveness of Conversational Behaviors in a
Reading Tutor that Listens.
Gregory Aist and Jack Mostow
- Predicting Speech Recognition Performance from Dialogue
Phenonmena.
Diane Litman, Michael Kearns, and Marilyn Walker
- Automating Coreference: The Role of Annotated Training Data.
Lynette Hirschman, Patricia Robinson, John Burger, and Marc
Vilain
- SGML-Based Markup as a Step toward Improving Knowledge Acquisition
for Text Generation.
Reva Freedman, Yujian Zhou, Jung Hee Kim, Michael Glass and
Martha Evens
- Improving Dialogue Annotation Reliability.
Teresa Sikorski
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Status report on Discourse
Resource Initiative: Barbara DiEugenio (panel chair), Christine
Nakatani, and Susann Luperfoy
11:30 Discussion
12:30 End of Symposium Series