Reconciling initiative and discourse structure

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2001 Workshop - 2nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Strayer, Susan E ^a   Heeman, Peter A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; INTENTIONAL STRUCTURE;

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