@inproceedings{KempsonCann2006,
  author    = {Kempson, Ruth and Cann, Ronnie},
  title     = {Dialogue pressures and syntactic change},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10469},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {On the basis of the Dynamic Syntax framework, this paper argues that the production pressures in dialogue determining alignment effects and given versus new informational effects also drive the shift from case-rich free word order systems without clitic pronouns into systems with clitic pronouns with rigid relative ordering. The paper introduces assumptions of Dynamic Syntax, in particular the building up of interpretation through structural underspecification and update, sketches the attendant account of production with close coordination of parsing and production strategies, and shows how what was at the Latin stage a purely pragmatic, production-driven decision about linear ordering becomes encoded in the clitics in theMedieval Spanish system which then through successive steps of routinization yield the modern systems with immediately pre-verbal fixed clitic templates.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{VlugterKnott2006,
  author    = {Vlugter, Peter and Knott, Alistair},
  title     = {A multi-speaker dialogue system for computer-aided language learning},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10208},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {The main topic of this paper is how to configure a dialogue system to support computer-aided language learning. The paper also serves to introduce our new multi-speaker dialogue system, and highlight some of its novel features.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{Karagjosova2006,
  author    = {Karagjosova, Elena},
  title     = {Correction and acceptance by contrastive focus},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10258},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {An account is presented of the focus properties, common ground effect and dialogue behaviour of the accented German discourse marker "doch" and the accented sentence negation "nicht". It is argued that "doch" and "nicht" evoke as a focus alternative the logical complement of the proposition expressed by the sentence in which they occur, and that an analysis in terms of contrastive focus accounts for their effect on the common ground and their function in dialogue.},
  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{Thomas2006,
  author    = {Thomas, Kavita E.},
  title     = {Modelling Correction Signalled by "But" in Dialogue},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10308},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Claiming that cross-speaker "but" can signal correction in dialogue, we start by describing the types of corrections "but" can communicate by focusing on the Speech Act (SA) communicated in the previous turn and address the ways in which "but" can correct what is communicated. We address whether "but" corrects the proposition, the direct SA or the discourse relation communicated in the previous turn. We will also briefly address other relations signalled by cross-turn "but". After presenting a typology of the situations "but" can correct, we will address how these corrections can be modelled in the Information State model of dialogue, motivating this work by showing how it can be used to potentially avoid misunderstandings. We wrap up by showing how the model presented here updates beliefs in the Information State representation of the dialogue and can be used to facilitate response deliberation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BeyssadeMarandin2006,
  author    = {Beyssade, Claire and Marandin, Jean-Marie},
  title     = {From complex to simple speech acts : a bidimensional analysis of illocutionary},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10319},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We present a new analysis of illocutionary forces in dialogue. We analyze them as complex conversational moves involving two dimensions: what Speaker commits herself to and what she calls on Addressee to perform. We start from the analysis of speech acts such as confirmation requests or whimperatives, and extend the analysis to seemingly simple speech acts, such as statements and queries. Then, we show how to integrate our proposal in the framework of the Grammar for Conversation (Ginzburg, to app.), which is adequate for modelling agents' information states and how they get updated.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{Hara2006,
  author    = {Hara, Yurie},
  title     = {Question intonation and lexicalized bias expression},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10323},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {This paper examines the interaction between different utterance types and the Japanese modal particle darou, and proposes that the decision-theoretic semantics accounts for the interaction among darou, sentence types and intonation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{ArtsteinPoesio2006,
  author    = {Artstein, Ron and Poesio, Massimo},
  title     = {Identifying reference to abstract objects in dialogue},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10357},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {In two experiments, many annotators marked antecedents for discourse deixis as unconstrained regions of text. The experiments show that annotators do converge on the identity of these text regions, though much of what they do can be captured by a simple model. Demonstrative pronouns are more likely than definite descriptions to be marked with discourse antecedents. We suggest that our methodology is suitable for the systematic study of discourse deixis.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LascaridesStone2006,
  author    = {Lascarides, Alex and Stone, Matthew},
  title     = {Formal semantics for iconic gesture},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10330},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {We present a formal analysis of iconic coverbal gesture. Our model describes the incomplete meaning of gesture that's derivable from its form, and the pragmatic reasoning that yields a more specific interpretation. Our formalism builds on established models of discourse interpretation to capture key insights from the descriptive literature on gesture: synchronous speech and gesture express a single thought, but while the form of iconic gesture is an important clue to its interpretation, the content of gesture can be resolved only by linking it to its context.},
  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}
}