@inproceedings{WolskaKruijffKorbayova2006,
  author    = {Wolska, Magdalena and Kruijff-Korbayov{\´a}, Ivana},
  title     = {Modeling anaphora in informal mathematical dialogue},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10455},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We analyze anaphoric phenomena in the context of building an input understanding component for a conversational system for tutoring mathematics. In this paper, we report the results of data analysis of two sets of corpora of dialogs on mathematical theorem proving. We exemplify anaphoric phenomena, identify factors relevant to anaphora resolution in our domain and extensions to the input interpretation component to support it.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DeVaultStone2006,
  author    = {DeVault, David and Stone, Matthew},
  title     = {Scorekeeping in an uncertain language game},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10448},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Received views of utterance context in pragmatic theory characterize the occurrent subjective states of interlocutors using notions like common knowledge or mutual belief. We argue that these views are not compatible with the uncertainty and robustness of context-dependence in human–human dialogue. We present an alternative characterization of utterance context as objective and normative. This view reconciles the need for uncertainty with received intuitions about coordination and meaning in context, and can directly inform computational approaches to dialogue.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{SagetGuyomard2006,
  author    = {Saget, Sylvie and Guyomard, Marc},
  title     = {Goal-oriented dialog as a collaborative subordinated activity involving collective acceptance},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10420},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Modeling dialog as a collaborative activity consists notably in specifying the contain of the Conversational Common Ground and the kind of social mental state involved. In previous work (Saget, 2006), we claim that Collective Acceptance is the proper social attitude for modeling Conversational Common Ground in the particular case of goal-oriented dialog. We provide a formalization of Collective Acceptance, besides elements in order to integrate this attitude in a rational model of dialog are provided; and finally, a model of referential acts as being part of a collaborative activity is provided. The particular case of reference has been chosen in order to exemplify our claims.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{MillsHealey2006,
  author    = {Mills, Gregory J. and Healey, Patrick G. T.},
  title     = {Clarifying spatial descriptions : local and global effects on semantic co-ordination},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10414},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {A key problem for models of dialogue is to explain the mechanisms involved in generating and responding to clarification requests. We report a 'Maze task' experiment that investigates the effect of 'spoof' clarification requests on the development of semantic co-ordination. The results provide evidence of both local and global semantic co-ordination phenomena that are not captured by existing dialogue co-ordination models.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{MacuraGinzburg2006,
  author    = {Macura, Zoran and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
  title     = {Acquiring words across generations : introspectively or interactively?},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10408},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {How does a shared lexicon arise in population of agents with differing lexicons, and how can this shared lexicon be maintained over multiple generations? In order to get some insight into these questions we present an ALife model in which the lexicon dynamics of populations that possess and lack metacommunicative interaction (MCI) capabilities are compared. We ran a series of experiments on multi-generational populations whose initial state involved agents possessing distinct lexicons. These experiments reveal some clear differences in the lexicon dynamics of populations that acquire words solely by introspection contrasted with populations that learn using MCI or using a mixed strategy of introspection and MCI. The lexicon diverges at a faster rate for an introspective population, eventually collapsing to one single form which is associated with all meanings. This contrasts sharply with MCI capable populations in which a lexicon is maintained, where every meaning is associated with a unique word. We also investigated the effect of increasing the meaning space and showed that it speeds up the lexicon divergence for all populations irrespective of their acquisition method.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LueckingRieserStaudacher2006,
  author    = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
  title     = {Multi-modal integration for gesture and speech},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10393},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Demonstratives, in particular gestures that "only" accompany speech, are not a big issue in current theories of grammar. If we deal with gestures, fixing their function is one big problem, the other one is how to integrate the representations originating from different channels and, ultimately, how to determine their composite meanings. The growing interest in multi-modal settings, computer simulations, human-machine interfaces and VRapplications increases the need for theories ofmultimodal structures and events. In our workshopcontribution we focus on the integration of multimodal contents and investigate different approaches dealing with this problem such as Johnston et al. (1997) and Johnston (1998), Johnston and Bangalore (2000), Chierchia (1995), Asher (2005), and Rieser (2005).},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{Diderichsen2006,
  author    = {Diderichsen, Philip},
  title     = {Cross recurrence quantification analysis of indefinite anaphora in Swedish dialog : an eye-tracking pilot experiment},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10388},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {A new method is used in an eye-tracking pilot experiment which shows that it is possible to detect differences in common ground associated with the use of minimally different types of indefinite anaphora. Following Richardson and Dale (2005), cross recurrence quantification analysis (CRQA) was used to show that the tandem eye movements of two Swedish-speaking interlocutors are slightly more coupled when they are using fully anaphoric indefinite expressions than when they are using less anaphoric indefinites. This shows the potential of CRQA to detect even subtle processing differences in ongoing discourse.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BergmannKopp2006,
  author    = {Bergmann, Kirsten and Kopp, Stefan},
  title     = {Verbal or visual? : How information is distributed across speech and gesture in spatial dialog},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10375},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {In spatial dialog like in direction giving humans make frequent use of speechaccompanying gestures. Some gestures convey largely the same information as speech while others complement speech. This paper reports a study on how speakers distribute meaning across speech and gesture, and depending on what factors. Utterance meaning and the wider dialog context were tested by statistically analyzing a corpus of direction-giving dialogs. Problems of speech production (as indicated by discourse markers and disfluencies), the communicative goals, and the information status were found to be influential, while feedback signals by the addressee do not have any influence.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{KranstedtLueckingPfeifferetal.2006,
  author    = {Kranstedt, Alfred and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Pfeiffer, Thies and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
  title     = {Measuring and reconstructing pointing in visual contexts},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10362},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We describe an experiment to gather original data on geometrical aspects of pointing. In particular, we are focusing upon the concept of the pointing cone, a geometrical model of a pointing's extension. In our setting we employed methodological and technical procedures of a new type to integrate data from annotations as well as from tracker recordings. We combined exact information on position and orientation with rater's classifications. Our first results seem to challenge classical linguistic and philosophical theories of demonstration in that they advise to separate pointings from reference.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LueckingRieserStaudacher2006,
  author    = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Rieser, Hannes and Staudacher, Marc},
  title     = {SDRT and multi-modal situated communication},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10348},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Classical SDRT (Asher and Lascarides, 2003) discussed essential features of dialogue like adjacency pairs or corrections and up-dating. Recent work in SDRT (Asher, 2002, 2005) aims at the description of natural dialogue. We use this work to model situated communication, i.e. dialogue, in which sub-sentential utterances and gestures (pointing and grasping) are used as conventional modes of communication. We show that in addition to cognitive modelling in SDRT, capturing mental states and speech-act related goals, special postulates are needed to extract meaning out of contexts. Gestural meaning anchors Discourse Referents in contextually given domains. Both sorts of meaning are fused with the meaning of fragments to get at fully developed dialogue moves. This task accomplished, the standard SDRT machinery, tagged SDRSs, rhetorical relations, the up-date mechanism, and the Maximize Discourse Coherence constraint generate coherent structures. In sum, meanings from different verbal and non-verbal sources are assembled using extended SDRT to form coherent wholes.},
  language  = {en}
}