Notes:
A discourse segment is a unit of discourse that spans a few sentences or more and is usually defined by a particular topic or theme. In other words, it is a section of text that is coherent and focused on a specific topic, and that may be separated from other discourse segments by changes in topic or by other indicators such as paragraph breaks or shifts in speaker or narrator. Discourse segments can be found in a variety of texts, including written documents, spoken conversations, and multimedia presentations. They are an important feature of language and communication, as they help to organize and structure the flow of information and ideas in a way that is easier for the listener or reader to understand.
In dialog systems, discourse segmentation is an important task that involves breaking down the conversation into smaller units of discourse in order to better understand and respond to the user’s intentions and requests. Discourse segmentation can be used to identify the topic of the conversation, the main points being made, and the relationships between different pieces of information. This information can then be used to generate a more appropriate and coherent response from the dialog system.
For example, consider the following conversation between a user and a virtual assistant:
User: “Can you tell me about the weather in New York today?” Virtual assistant: “Sure, the weather in New York today is mostly cloudy with a high of 75 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 63 degrees Fahrenheit. There is a 20% chance of rain in the afternoon.”
In this conversation, the discourse segment is the information about the weather in New York. The virtual assistant has identified the user’s request and provided a relevant and coherent response.
Discourse segmentation can also be used in dialog systems to identify the boundaries between different topics or themes in a conversation. For example, if the conversation shifts from discussing the weather to making plans for the weekend, the dialog system can use discourse segmentation to identify the change in topic and respond appropriately.
- Conversation representation refers to the way in which a conversation is stored and processed by a computer system. This may include information about the participants, the sequence of turns, and the content of the conversation.
- Discourse segment is a unit of discourse that spans a few sentences or more and is usually defined by a particular topic or theme. It is a section of text that is coherent and focused on a specific topic.
- Discourse segments, the plural form, refers to multiple units of discourse that may occur within a larger conversation or text.
- Discourse segmentation is the process of dividing a conversation or text into smaller units of discourse, or discourse segments. This can be done manually by a human or automatically by a computer algorithm.
- Discourse parsing refers to the process of analyzing the structure and meaning of a conversation or text at the discourse level. It involves identifying the relationships between different pieces of information and the overall organization and coherence of the text. Discourse parsing can be used to understand the intentions and goals of the speaker or writer and to generate more appropriate and coherent responses.
Wikipedia:
References:
- Sentence and Discourse (2015)
- Text Knowledge and Object Knowledge (2015)
- Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems (2013)
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ARB Rizi, AE Rasekh – Covenant …, 2016 – journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng
… According to Oliveira (2003), variation in fundamental frequency is generally considered to be a common device in discourse segmentation … Variation in fundamental frequency is generally considered to be a common device in discourse segmentation …
A language-based model for specifying and staging mixed-initiative dialogs
S Perugini, JW Buck – Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… The model, notation, and engine help automate the engineering of mixed-initiative dialog systems … Thus, “[d]eveloping a mixed-initiative dialog system is a complex task” [20] and “involves a very intensive programming ef- fort” [17] …
A Language-based Model for Specifying and Staging Mixed-initiative Dialogs
SPJW Buck – dialog – academic.udayton.edu
… The model, notation, and engine help automate the engineering of mixed-initiative dialog systems … Thus, “[d]eveloping a mixed-initiative dialog system is a complex task” [20] and “involves a very intensive programming ef- fort” [17] …
Resolving Perception Based Problems in Human-Computer Dialogue
N Schutte – 2016 – arrow.dit.ie
… 11 1.4 Other Relevant Publications . . . . . 13 2 Background 15 2.1 Situated Dialogue Systems . . . . . 17 2.1.1 Elements of a Situated Dialogue Systems . . . . . 18 2.2 Modelling Dialogue . . . . . 22 …
A theoretical framework for conversational search
F Radlinski, N Craswell – Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… In the field of spoken dialog systems, approaches already exist allowing conversational slot filling of a structured query within a schema (eg [44]). This allows users to book a ticket for a certain concert on a certain night, or set a certain reminder message to …
Toward robust semantic interaction for English language learners
T Luu – 2016 – bir.brandeis.edu
… 2009). From this multidimensional perspective, this work aims to develop a text-based dialog system that is capable of acquiring semantic and pragmatic knowledge to create … for the local coherence of a discourse segment by reducing the inference load required to …
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
M Palmer, R Hwa, S Riedel – Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on …, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. EMNLP 2017 The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference September 9-11, 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark Page 2. c?2017 The Association for Computational Linguistics …
PersoNER: Persian named-entity recognition
H Poostchi, E Zare Borzeshi, M Abdous… – International …, 2016 – opus.lib.uts.edu.au
… Applications Tim Baldwin Maria Liakata Dialog Processing and Dialog Systems, Multimodal Interfaces Nina Dethlefs Simon Keizer Giuseppe Riccardi Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding Florian Metze Chung-Hsien Wu …
AppTechMiner: Mining Applications and Techniques from Scientific Articles
M Singh, S Dan, S Agarwal, P Goyal… – Proceedings of the 6th …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Word Alignment, Conditional Random Fields, Maximum Entropy, Coreference Resolution, Machine Learning, Dialogue Systems, Textual Entailment … Fields, Segmentation Bakeo , Stanford Chinese Word Seg- menter, Perceptron Algorithm , Discourse Segmentation, CRF model …
The situated multimodal facets of human communication
A Esposito – Coverbal synchrony in human-machine interaction, 2013 – books.google.com
… Pausing strategies are also used as a linguistic tool for discourse segmentation, marking word, clause and paragraph boundaries … great utility in the field of human-machine interaction, favoring the implementation of more natural speech synthesis and interactive dialog systems …
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Y Matsumoto, R Prasad – Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th …, 2016 – aclweb.org
… Applications Tim Baldwin Maria Liakata Dialog Processing and Dialog Systems, Multimodal Interfaces Nina Dethlefs Simon Keizer Giuseppe Riccardi Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding Florian Metze Chung-Hsien Wu …
HCI from a Discourse Perspective Area: Discourse and Interaction GRACE Deliverable 5.1
R Bod, M Dastani, R Scha, H Zeevat – cogsci.ed.ac.uk
… le. As a dialogue system our simpli ed editor is maximally simple … other. Due to this hierarchical nature of di- scourse, utterances, as well as larger discourse segments, are usually involved in complex mutual dependencies …
Agentní p?ístup k dialogovému ?ízení
T Nestorovi? – 2016 – otik.uk.zcu.cz
… work in speech act theory and discourse analysis, namely the concepts of conversational acts and discourse segment intentions … detection and management, dialogue length optimization, and complex utterances production – hence covers all major topics in dialogue systems …
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
L Màrquez, C Callison-Burch, J Su – Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 – aclweb.org
Page 1. contact@emnlp2015.org www.emnlp2015.org Page 2. ii Page 3. EMNLP 2015 gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for their support: Platinum Gold Silver AI @ ISI DigitalGenius Artificial Intelligence for Brands Bronze Best Student Paper Supporters …
Triggering effective social support for online groups
R Kumar, CP Rosé – … Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS …, 2014 – dl.acm.org
… In line with recent developments in data-driven approaches for building dialog systems, we present a novel technique for learning behavior- specific triggering policies, deploying it as part of our efforts to improve a socially capable conversational tutor agent that supports …
Unnecessary utterance detection for avoiding digressions in discussion
R Yoshida, T Hiraoka, G Neubig, S Sakti… – … Annual Summit and …, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… If, for example, a dialogue system could help us avoid digressions and keep the conversation on track, the discussion could proceed more efficiently … [15] Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier, and Honyan Jing, “Discourse segmentation of multi-party …
The conversational interface
M McTear, Z Callejas, D Griol – Springer, 2016 – Springer
… With the evolution of speech recognition and natural language technologies, IVR systems rapidly became more sophisticated and enabled the creation of complex dialog systems that could handle natural language queries and many turns of interaction …
Multiple topic identification in human/human conversations
X Bost, G Senay, M El-Bèze, R De Mori – Computer Speech & Language, 2015 – Elsevier
… Topic segmentation in spoken conversations is reviewed in Purver (2011). An evaluation of coarse-grain discourse segmentation can be found in Niekrasz and Moore (2010) … One of the four systems uses a new method for extracting features from discourse segments …
Prediction of a hotspot pattern in keyword search results
J Gao, A Radeva, C Shen, S Wang, Q Wang… – Computer Speech & …, 2018 – Elsevier
… Prediction of keyword hotspots could potentially support better prediction of speech recognition quality for conversational speech or dialog systems (Goldwater et al., 2010; Litman et al., 2000). This paper addresses three goals …
What is Initiative?
K FITZGERALD, B HUI… – Computational Models of …, 2013 – books.google.com
… A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO INITIATIVE Perhaps the earliest investigations into initiative and the design of mixed-initiative dialogue systems was presented in … also a claim that shifts of control do not occur until the controller indicates the end of a discourse segment by either …
Functional and temporal relations between spoken and gestured components of language
KI Kok – International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2017 – jbe-platform.com
… Consider for instance the following (fictive) transcript of a spoken discourse segment … It was mostly oriented towards the design of virtual avatars and automated dialogue systems (Bergmann & Kopp 2009, Bergmann et al. 2010, Kopp et al. 2008, Lücking et al. 2010) …
Students´ language in computer-assisted tutoring of mathematical proofs
MA Wolska – 2015 – universaar.uni-saarland.de
… to the format of the study material presentation having a priming-like effect. These results have implications for the implementation of tutorial dialogue systems. On the one hand, more natural language, be it resulting from a verbose …
Integrating natural language processing with image document analysis: what we learned from two real-world applications
J Chen, H Cao, P Natarajan – International Journal on Document Analysis …, 2015 – Springer
Automatically accessing information from unconstrained image documents has important applications in business and government operations. These real-world applications typically combine optical charact.
Interactive generation of effective discourse in situated context: a planning-based approach
K Garoufi – 2013 – d-nb.info
… practical (Allen et al., 2001). Interactive language generation is a key capability of spoken dialog systems, which are aimed at two-way spoken commu- Page 26. 1.2. Challenges 4 nication with a user. Such systems typically augment …
A corpus study of clause combination
O Nikitina, S Padó – Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on …, 2013 – aclweb.org
… They show that coherent discourse is characterized by chains of mentions of same entities. Hearst (1997) show that event chains that are formed only by the mentions of the same lexical item mirror the global structure of texts and can be used for discourse segmentation …
Man-machine Dialogue: Design and Challenges
F Landragin – 2013 – books.google.com
… Computer aspects 2.4. Conclusion Chapter 3: The Development Stages of a Dialogue System 3.1. Comparing a few development progresses 3.2 … Conclusion Chapter 10: Multimodal Dialogue System Assessment 10.1. Dialogue system assessment feasibility 10.2 …
D3. 1 Instructional Designs for Real-time Feedback
P Van Rosmalen, D Börner, J Schneider, V Petukhova… – 2014 – dspace.ou.nl
… Project ref. no. ICT – 611073 Project title METALOGUE – Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue: dialogue system with metacognitive abilities Document status Final version Contractual date of delivery 31 October 2014 Actual date of delivery 21 November 2014 …
Which techniques does your application use?: An information extraction framework for scientific articles
S Dan, S Agarwal, M Singh, P Goyal… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 – arxiv.org
… dependency parsing, information extraction, chinese word segmentation, semantic role labeling, in- formation retrieval, entity recognition, word alignment, conditional random fields, maximum entropy, corefer- ence resolution, machine learning, dialogue systems, tex- tual …
Unsupervised extraction of semantic relations using discourse information
J Conrath – 2015 – thesesups.ups-tlse.fr
Page 1. THÈSE En vue de l’obtention du DOCTORAT DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE Présentée et soutenue le 14/12/2015 par : Juliette Conrath Unsupervised extraction of semantic relations using discourse information Directeurs de Thèse …
Computational modeling of turn-taking dynamics in spoken conversations
SA Chowdhury – 2017 – eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
Page 1. PhD Dissertation International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies DISI – University of Trento COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF TURN-TAKING DYNAMICS IN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS Shammur Absar Chowdhury Advisor: Prof …
Mining mixed-initiative dialogs
S Perugini – Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2016 IEEE …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Dialog Mining dialog management as a set of posets R, where |R|<=|P| implementation of dialog a set of posets P Fig. 1: Concept of dialog mining (left) contextualized within the broader scope of our approach to automatic dialog system construction …
RST Bibliography from the RST web site (http://www. sfu. ca/rst) Last updated: January 21, 2015
NN Mitkov, N Nikolov – health communication – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… 2012. A symbolic approach for automatic detection of nuclearity and rhetorical relations among intra- sentence discourse segments in Spanish. Proceedings of CICLing. (pp. 462-474). New Delhi, India … 2011. DiSeg 1.0: The first system for Spanish discourse segmentation …
Automatic question generation for virtual humans
EL Fasya – 2017 – essay.utwente.nl
… question. Figure 2.4 illustrates a simple finite-state automation architecture of a dialogue manager in a spoken dialogue system [2]. 2.3.2 Form-based … in Figure 2.5. Each of the discourse segment within the discourse in figure 2.5 has a purpose held by the person who initiates it …
Uh and um in children with autism spectrum disorders or language impairment
K Gorman, L Olson, AP Hill, R Lunsford… – Autism …, 2016 – Wiley Online Library
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Content and Context in Conversations: The Role of Social and Situational Signals in Conversation Structure
F Bonin – 2016 – tara.tcd.ie
Page 1. Content and Context in Conversations: The Role of Social and Situational Signals in Conversation Structure Francesca Bonin Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Computer Science & Statistics Trinity College University of Dublin Page 2 …
Speech-enabled Systems for Language Learning
A Tewari – 2013 – search.proquest.com
Speech-enabled Systems for Language Learning. Abstract. Levels of literacy and the variance in them, continue to be a problem in the world. These problems are ubiquitous in the sense that they change form from developing to developed regions, but do not seize to exist …
Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 2: Semantics, Discourse and Applications
MZ Kurdi – 2017 – books.google.com
Page 1. COGNITIVE SCIENCE SERIES Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 2 Semantics, Discourse and Applications Mohamed zakaria Kurdi Page 2. COGNITIVE SCIENCE SERIES | I. Page 3. Page 4 …
Automatic Generation of Sports News
JPBM Aires – 2016 – repositorio-aberto.up.pt
… information [28]. Dialogue Systems Dialogue system’s main purpose is to improve human-machine communica- tion. Users interact directly with the system that creates sentences conditioned by the previous context. There are …
Referential Choice: Predictability and Its Limits
AA Kibrik, MV Khudyakova, GB Dobrov… – Frontiers in …, 2016 – frontiersin.org
We report a study of referential choice in discourse production, understood as the choice between various types of referential devices, such as pronouns and full noun phrases. Our goal is to predict referential choice, and to explore to what extent such prediction is possible. Our approach …
Agent-Based Meeting Scheduler
A CESTA, D D’ALOISI – Computational Models of Mixed-Initiative …, 2013 – books.google.com
… 1. Introduction The term mixed-initiative usually refers to dialogue systems (Walker & Whittaker, 1990), in which the turns of conversation, along with an analysis of the type of utterances, determine which actor has control of the dialogue …
Can we Improve the User Experience of Chatbots with Personalisation?
D Duijst – 2017 – researchgate.net
… Exam- ples of ways to recognise structure in dialog acts can include adjacency pairs, exchanges, discourse segments and conversational games … (2009) propose evaluation metrics derived from the PARADigm for DIalogue System Evaluation (PARADISE) in their paper …
Text knowledge and object knowledge
A Rothkegel – 2015 – books.google.com
Page 1. BLOOMSEURY ACADEMIC COLLECTIONS LINGUISTICS: COMMUNICATION |N ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TEXT KNOWLEDGE AND OBJECT KNOWLEDGE Annely Rothkegel BLOOMSBURY Page 2. Page 3. Text Knowledge and Object Knowledge Page 4 …
Students’ language in computer-assisted tutoring of mathematical proofs
MA Wolska – svn.kwarc.info
… the study material having a priming-like effect. The results on the influence of the study material presentation have implications for the implementation of tutorial dialogue systems. On the one hand, more natural language, be …
The Oxford handbook of corpus phonology
J Durand, U Gut, G Kristoffersen – 2014 – books.google.com
… His research addresses both human speech processing (voice source modelling, intonation, pronunciation variation, speech pathology) and speech technology (automatic speech recognition and transcrip- tion, spoken dialogue systems, and computer-assisted language …
Using social agents to explore theories of rapport and emotional resonance
J Gratch, SH Kang, N Wang – Social Emotions in Nature and …, 2013 – books.google.com
… the listener. Such posture shifts, both for speakers and listeners, tend to occur at discourse segment boundar- ies and may function to help manage such transitions (Cassell, Nakano, Bickmore, Sidner, & Rich, 2001). When present …
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SE BRENNAN, AK KUHLEN… – Stevens’ Handbook of …, 2018 – books.google.com
… answer alone. Finally, computational approaches can implement models of language use (often using findings from these other approaches) to create working text generation programs or spoken dialogue systems. With these …
The Fiesta Data Model: A novel approach to the representation of heterogeneous multimodal interaction data
P Menke – 2016 – books.google.com
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Modeling Human-Robot-Interaction based on generic Interaction Patterns
J Peltason – 2014 – pub.uni-bielefeld.de
… RS98]. However, Collagen is not an actual dialog system, but intended as a plug-in for intelligent user interfaces … aspects. The focus stack contains hierarchical discourse segments, each contributing to a specific shared plan …
Towards Modeling Collaborative Task Oriented Multimodal Human-human Dialogues
L Chen – 2014 – search.proquest.com
… SmartKom was a mixed-initiative dialogue system with full symmetric multimodality: the combined input of speech, gesture, and facial … among focus of attention, choice of referring expression and perceived coherence of utterances within a discourse segment (Grosz et al., 1995) …
CLITIC PLACEMENT AND THE PROPERTIES OF THE INTONATIONAL PHRASE INSERBIAN
M MARKOVI, T MILIûEV – Selected Papers from SinFonIJA 3, 2013 – books.google.com
… Kuno 1975 and Reinhart 1983 for the analysis of preposed adverbials as’ scene-setters’ or topics, creating new discourse segments), as well as the different prosodic status of different types of preposed adverbs (specifically, the impossibility of’neutral’intonation with certain …
Italian Studies: Language and Linguistics
S Cruschina, EM Remberger – The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016 – JSTOR
Page 1. IX. ITALIAN STUDIES LANgUAgE AND LINgUISTIcS Silvio cruschina and Eva-Maria Remberger, University of Vienna 1. general Klump, Manuel, is the first volume of the de gruyter series Manual of Romance Languages …
Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation
F Macagno, D Walton – 2017 – Springer
… It provides analytical tools, namely, dialogue systems and profiles of dialogue, which can be used for reconstructing, evaluating, and establishing an interpretation and defusing manipulative tactics associated with straw man arguments. Introduction Page 18. 1 …
Syntactic and referential choice in corpus-based generation: modeling source, context and interactions
S Zarrieß – 2016 – elib.uni-stuttgart.de
Page 1. Syntactic and Referential Choice in Corpus-based Generation: Modeling Source, Context and Interactions Von der Fakultät für Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Universität Stuttgart zur Erlangung …
Referential choice
AA Kibrik, MV Khudyakova, GB Dobrov, A Linnik… – 2016 – publishup.uni-potsdam.de
… in Nicolae et al. (2010). As these authors correctly state, “the most widely known coreference corpora < … > are annotated with relations between entities, not between discourse segments. The most widely known coherence …
Robust Methods for Content Analysis of Auditory Scenes
JT Geiger – 2015 – mediatum.ub.tum.de
… Audio recognition methods are also used in robotics. For example, service robots with a multimodal dialogue system can improve their understanding of the environ- ment with techniques for speech and audio recognition [10] …
Complex question answering: minimizing the gaps and beyond
SSA Hasan – 2013 – uleth.ca
… period of 1970 and 1990 in order to develop different types of QA systems that could be categorized as natural language database systems, dialogue systems, and reading compre- hension systems (Greenwood, 2005). After that, researchers focused on answering simple …
Emerging Trends in Personality Identification Using Online Social Networks—A Literature Survey
V Kaushal, M Patwardhan – … on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2018 – dl.acm.org
… Some examples include recommendation systems (Roshchina et al. 2011), deception detection (Enos et al. 2006), authorship attribution (Luyckx and Daelemans 2008; Reiter and Sripada 2004), dialog systems (Funder and Sneed 1993; McLarney et al …
Embodied agents for long-term interaction
D Schulman – 2013 – search.proquest.com
… They are a subset of the larger category of conversational agents or dialogue systems: interfaces that interact with users through some form of conversation, typically natural language, whether spoken or textual. Compared to …
Prosody and Grammar in Kabardian
AAB Applebaum – 2013 – search.proquest.com
Prosody and Grammar in Kabardian. Abstract. This study provides a systematic phonetic analysis of the basic entities of Kabardian prosodic units above the word and investigates the predictability of prosodic units from grammatical and discourse factors …