Discovering latent structure in task-oriented dialogues

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-46

  Zhai, Ke ^a   Williams, Jason D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN ANNOTATIONS; LATENT STRUCTURES; LOG LIKELIHOOD; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; STATE REPRESENTATION; TASK-ORIENTED; TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84906925486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1004     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (41)

1. Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max Welling, David Newman, Ian Porteous, and Scott Triglia, 2012. Distributed Gibbs sampling for latent variable models.
2. Satanjeev Banerjee and Alexander I Rudnicky. 2006. A texttiling based approach to topic boundary detection in meetings. In INTERSPEECH.
3. Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, and Amanda Stent. 2006. Learning the structure of taskdriven human-human dialogs. In ACL, Stroudsburg, PA, USA.
4. Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee. 2004. Catching the drift: Probabilistic content models, with applications to generation and summarization. In NAACL, pages 113-120.
5. Matthew J. Beal. 2003. Variational Algorithms for Approximate Bayesian Inference. Ph.D. thesis.
6. Alan W Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Hastie, Simon Keizer, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young, and Maxine Eskenazi. 2010. Spoken dialog challenge 2010: Comparison of live and control test results. In SIGDIAL.
7. David M. Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael Jordan. 2003. Latent Dirichlet allocation. JMLR.
8. Ananlada Chotimongkol. 2008. Learning the Structure of Task-oriented Conversations from the Corpus of In-domain Dialogs. Ph.D. thesis.
9. Nigel Crook, Ramn Granell, and Stephen G. Pulman. 2009. Unsupervised classification of dialogue acts using a dirichlet process mixture model. In SIGDIAL.
10. Hal Daumé III and Daniel Marcu. 2006. Bayesian query-focused summarization. In ACL-44: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 305-312, Morristown, NJ, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
11. David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Fabrizio Morbini, David Traum, Stefan Scherer, Albert Rizzo, and Louis-Philippe Morency. 2013. Verbal indicators of psychological distress in interactive dialogue with a virtual human. In SIGDIAL.
12. Arnaud Doucet, Nando De Freitas, and Neil Gordon, editors. 2001. Sequential Monte Carlo methods in practice. Springer Texts in Statistics.
13. Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler- Lussier, and Hongyan Jing. 2003. Discourse segmentation of multi-party conversation. In ACL.
14. Sharon Goldwater and Thomas L. Griffiths. 2007. A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-ofspeech tagging. In ACL.
15. Thomas L. Griffiths and Mark Steyvers. 2004. Finding scientific topics. PNAS, 101(Suppl 1):5228-5235.
16. James Henderson and Oliver Lemon. 2008. Mixture model POMDPs for efficient handling of uncertainty in dialogue management. In ACL.
17. Matthew Hoffman, David M. Blei, and Francis Bach. 2010. Online learning for latent Dirichlet allocation. In NIPS.
18. Pei-yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore, and Steve Renals. 2006. Automatic segmentation of multiparty dialogue. In EACL.
19. Lluís F. Hurtado, Joaquin Planells, Encarna Segarra, Emilio Sanchis, and David Griol. 2010. A stochastic finite-state transducer approach to spoken dialog management. In INTERSPEECH.
20. Dan Jurafsky, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Debra Biasca. 1997. Switchboard SWBD-DAMSL shallowdiscourse- function annotation coders manual. Institute of Cognitive Science Technical Report, pages 97-02.
21. Maurice G. Kendall. 1938. A new measure of rank correlation. Biometrika Trust.
22. Staffan Larsson and David R. Traum. 2000. Information state and dialogue management in the TRINDI dialogue move engine toolkit. Natural Language Engineering, 5(3/4):323-340.
23. Esther Levin, Roberto Pieraccini, and Wieland Eckert. 2000. A stochastic model of human-machine interaction for learning dialogue strategies. IEEE Trans on Speech and Audio Processing, 8(1):11-23.
24. Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff, and Victor Zue. 2010. Dialogue-oriented review summary generation for spoken dialogue recommendation systems. In NAACL.
25. David Mimno, Hanna Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, David Smith, and Andrew McCallum. 2009. Polylingual topic models. In EMNLP.
26. Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, and Jean Carletta. 2005. Extractive summarization of meeting recordings. In European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
27. Radford M. Neal. 2000. Markov chain sampling methods for Dirichlet process mixture models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 9(2):249-265.
28. Radford M. Neal. 2003. Slice sampling. Annals of Statistics, 31:705-767.
29. Matthew Purver, Konrad Körding, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Joshua Tenenbaum. 2006. Unsupervised topic modelling for multi-party spoken discourse. In ACL.
30. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. 2010. Natural language generation as planning under uncertainty for spoken dialogue systems. In EMNLP.
31. Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry, and Bill Dolan. 2010. Unsupervised modeling of twitter conversations. In NAACL.
32. Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns, and Marilyn Walker. 2002. Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: Experiments with the NJFun system. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
33. Andreas Stolcke, Noah Coccaro, Rebecca Bates, Paul Taylor, Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Klaus Ries, Elizabeth Shriberg, Daniel Jurafsky, Rachel Martin, and Marie Meteer. 2000. Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech. Computational Linguistics, September.
34. David R Traum and Staffan Larsson. 2003. The information state approach to dialogue management. In Current and new directions in discourse and dialogue, pages 325-353.
35. Hanna M.Wallach, Iain Murray, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and David Mimno. 2009. Evaluation methods for topic models. In ICML.
36. Hanna M. Wallach. 2008. Structured Topic Models for Language. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.
37. Jason D.Williams and Suhrid Balakrishnan. 2009. Estimating probability of correctness for ASR N-best lists. In SIGDIAL.
38. Jason D. Williams. 2012. Challenges and opportunities for state tracking in statistical spoken dialog systems: Results from two public deployments. Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
39. Tae Yano, William W. Cohen, and Noah A. Smith. 2009. Predicting response to political blog posts with topic models. In NAACL, pages 477-485, Stroudsburg, PA, USA. ACL.
40. Steve Young. 2006. Using POMDPs for dialog management. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACLWorkshop on Spoken Language Technologies (SLT06).
41. Ke Zhai, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Nima Asadi, and Mohamad Alkhouja. 2012. Mr. LDA: A flexible large scale topic modeling package using variational inference in mapreduce. In WWW.