A challenging chat

A Chat about Chat

This is an informal discussion from my personal perspective on computersupported collaborative learning (CSCL). I envision an epical opportunity for promising new media to enable interpersonal interaction with today’s network technologies. While asynchronous media have often been tried in classroom settings, I have found that synchronous text chat in small workgroups can be particularly engagin...

V-CHAT - Versatile Chat

In recent years many online text chat systems have been developed and use. Internet Relay Chat or IRC, ICQ, AOL and MSN are some examples of the most popular tools for real-time communications via the Internet and have been used both for doing serious work [4], decision making [5] and for entertainment purpose. Messaging programs tend to imitate each other and they imitate other chat programs e...

Composable Chat: Towards a SOA-based Enterprise Chat System

Disentangling Chat

When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately. We refer to this task as disentanglement. We present a corpus of Internet Relay Chat dialogue in which the various conversations have been manually disentangled, and evaluate annotator reliability. We propose a graph-based c...

Multiparticipant chat analysis: A survey

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t We survey research on the analysis of multiparticipant chat. Multiple research and applied communities (e.g., AI, educational, law enforcement, military) have interest in this topic. After introducing some context, we describe relevant problems and how these have been addressed using AI techniques. We also identify recent research trends and unresolved issu...