An Issue Devoted to Dialogue

Interactive Communication Management in an Issue-based Dialogue System

We first give an overview of Interactive Communication Management (ICM), and especially feedback, in humanhuman communication. We then select a limited range of ICM behaviour useful for dialogue systems, and show how these utterances and responses to them are managed in a dialogue system implementing a theory of issue-based dialogue management.

Why should a special issue of the IETE Journal of Research be devoted to Cognitive Science

Why should a special issue of the IETE Journal of Research be devoted to Cognitive Science? Because there is a revolution taking place in our understanding of the brain and its product, the mind. Cognitive Science is the study of the mind, and understanding the rules by which the brain and mind work will have enormous consequences not only for understanding the human brain but also for making m...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue State Tracking

In the core of most task-oriented conversation systems is a component called a dialog state tracker, which estimates the user’s goal given all of the dialog history so far. For example, in a weather information system, the dialog state might indicate the location the user is interested in (Seattle, London, Beijing), and for which date (today, tomorrow, this Saturday). Dialog state tracking is d...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Incremental Processing in Dialogue

Perspectives on Dialogue: Introduction to this Special Issue

We briefly summarize the papers in this volume, draw attention to the variety of perspectives that they bring to the subject of dialogue, identify a number of common themes, and conclude with a discussion of directions for further research.