Discourse and Dialog papers

Foundations

Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics, Jurafsky, Daniel. Handbook of pragmatics (2004)
Hobbs, Jerry R., et al. "Interpretation as abduction." Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1988.

Discourse Structure

Attention, Intention, and the Structure of Discourse Grosz & Sidner
Grosz, Barbara J., and Candace L. Sidner, Lost Intuitions and Forgotten Intentions Centering in discourse (1998): 39-51.
Polanyi, Livia, The Linguistic Discourse Model: Towards a Formal Theory of Discourse Structure. No. BBN-6409. BBN LABS INC CAMBRIDGE MA, 1986.
Polanyi, Livia, The Linguistic Structure of Discourse, in: Handbook of Discourse Analysis 2001.
Mann, William, and Sandra Thompson, Rhetorical Structure Theory, ISI Technical Report
Carlson, Lynn, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski. Building a discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of rhetorical structure theory. Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Taboada, Maite, and William C. Mann. "Rhetorical structure theory: Looking back and moving ahead." Discourse studies 8.3 (2006): 423-459.
Bunt, Harry. Dimensions in dialogue act annotation." Proc. of LREC. Vol. 6. 2006.
Bunt, Harry, et al Towards and ISO standard for Dialog Act Annotation
Bunt, Harry, et al Final ISO standard for Dialog Act Annotation
Hearst, Marti, TextTiling: Segmenting Text into Multi-paragrph Subtopic Passages, ACL, 1997
Venditti, Jennifer J., and Julia Hirschberg. Intonation and discourse processing Actes du 15éme Congrès des Sciences Phonétiques (ICPhS) (2003): 107-114.

Reference Resolution

The Representation and Use of Focus in a System for Understanding Dialogs Barbara Grosz, 1977
Focus in Dialog Barbara Grosz, 1978
Hirst, Graeme. Discourse-oriented anaphora resolution in natural language understanding: A review. Computational Linguistics 7.2 (1981): 85-98.
Grosz, Barbara J., Scott Weinstein, and Aravind K. Joshi. Centering: A framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse Computational linguistics 21.2 (1995): 203-225.
Walker Toward a model of the interaction of centering with global discourse structure, 2000
Dale, Robert, and Ehud Reiter. Computational interpretations of the Gricean maxims in the generation of referring expressions Cognitive science 19.2 (1995): 233-263.
Eckert & Strube, Dialog Acts, Synchronizing Units, and Anaphora Resolution, Journal of Semantics, 2000.
Recommended by Alex Luu

Banarescu, Laura, et al. Abstract meaning representation (AMR) 1.0 specification. Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs.” In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Seattle: ACL. 2012.
Pradhan, Sameer, et al. Conll-2011 shared task: Modeling unrestricted coreference in ontonotes. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Prince, Ellen F. The ZPG letter: Subjects, definiteness, and information-status. Discourse description: diverse analyses of a fund raising text (1992): 295-325.
Raghunathan, Karthik, et al. A multi-pass sieve for coreference resolution. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
Poesio, Massimo, et al. Centering: A parametric theory and its instantiations. Computational linguistics 30.3 (2004): 309-363.
Kaiser, Elsi. Effects of topic and focus on salience. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 10. 2006.

Recommended by Tuan Do

Koller, Alexander, et al. Enhancing referential success by tracking hearer gaze. Proceedings of the 13th annual meeting of the special interest group on discourse and dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Johansson, Martin, and Gabriel Skantze. Opportunities and Obligations to Take Turns in Collaborative Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction. 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 2015.
Ha, Eun Young, et al. Combining verbal and nonverbal features to overcome the'information gap'in task-oriented dialogue Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Pfeiffer, Thies, et al. Gesture semantics reconstruction based on motion capturing and complex event processing: a circular shape example Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog (SIGDIAL) 2013 Conference. 2013.

Recommended by Swini Garimella

Barzilay, Regina, and Mirella Lapata. Modeling local coherence: An entity-based approach. Computational Linguistics 34.1 (2008)
Yannakoudakis, Helen, and Ted Briscoe. Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Burstein, Jill, et al. Holistic Annotation of Discourse Coherence Quality in Noisy Essay Writing. Dialogue and Discourse 4.2 (2013): 34-52.

Recommended by Orion Montoya

Raghunathan, Karthik, et al. A multi-pass sieve for coreference resolution. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
Bansal, Mohit, and Dan Klein. Papers/Coreference semantics from web features. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers-Volume 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.
Yang, Xiaofeng, and Jian Su. Coreference resolution using semantic relatedness information from automatically discovered patterns. ACL. 2007.
Durrett, Greg, and Dan Klein. Easy Victories and Uphill Battles in Coreference Resolution. EMNLP. 2013.

Recommendations by Keigh Rim

Purver, Matthew. "Topic segmentation. Spoken language understanding: systems for extracting semantic information from speech (2011): 291-317. http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/papers/purver11slu.pdf
Nguyen, Viet-An, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik. SITS: A hierarchical nonparametric model using speaker identity for topic segmentation in multiparty conversations. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers-Volume 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.

Dialog State Tracking Challenges

Dialog State Tracking Challenge 1
Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2& 3 Handbook
Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4
Black, Alan W., and Maxine Eskenazi. "The spoken dialogue challenge." Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009.
The REAL CHALLENGE 2014 Eskenazi, Black, Lee, Traum
Henderson, Matthew. Machine learning for dialog state tracking: A review. Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Machine Learning in Spoken Language Processing. 2015.

Belief modeling

The Use of Belief Networks for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling Meng, Wai, & Pieracini, 2003

Speech Acts

Techniques for Plan Recognition Carberry 2001
Using Dialog-Level Knowledge Sources to Improve Speech Recognition CMU 1988

Dialog

COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People RIch & Sidner 1996
Generation and evaluation of user tailored responses in multimodal dialogue Walker, Whittaker, Moore, Johnston, et al
Analyzing Intention in Utterances Allen & Perrault

BDI and Planning Architectures

Badler, Norman I., et al. “Planning and parallel transition networks: Animation’s new frontiers.” Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (1995): 91.

Corpora

ISO Dialog State __

Speech System Architectures

Galaxy II Architecture Seneff, et al. 1998
WebGalaxy Lau, et al. 1997
Galaxy-II_Architecture_for_evaluation Polifroni & Seneff, 2000

Dialog Systems

Bootstrapping Spoken Dialog Systems with Data Reuse Di Fabbrizio, Tur, AT&T Labs, 2011
Large-Scale Experiments on Data-Driven Design of Commercial Spoken Dialog Systemsk, Suendermann, Liscome, Bloom, Li, Peiraccini, 2011
Automating spoken dialogue management design using machine learning: An industry perspective Paek & Pieraccin, 2008
Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems Pieraccini, et. al
SPEECH RECOGNITION APPLICATION USING VOICE XML Gata, 2004

Ravenclaw

Bohus, Dan, and Alexander I. Rudnicky. "The RavenClaw dialog management framework: Architecture and systems. Computer Speech & Language 23.3 (2009): 332-361.
Bohus, Dan, and Alexander I. Rudnicky RavenClaw: Dialog Management Using Hierarchical Task Decomposition and an Expectation Agenda. (2003)
Rudnicky, Alexander, and Wei Xu. An Agenda-based Dialog Management Architecture for Spoken Language Systems. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop. Vol. 13. 1999.

Rochester

CARDIAC: An Intelligen Conversationalt Assitant for Chronic Heart Monitoring
An Architecture for a Generic Dialogue Shell
Allen, J., Byron, D., Dzikovska, M., Ferguson, G., Galescu, and Stent, A. 2000. An Architecture for a Generic Dialogue Shell

Dialog Structure

Evaluation

Others

Comparing Spoken Dialog Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users, Hua Ai1, Antoine Raux2, Dan Bohus3∗, Maxine Eskenazi2, Diane Litman1,AAAI 2007
Large-Scale Experiments on Data-Driven Design of Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems, D. Suendermann, J. Liscombe, J. Bloom, G. Li, R. Pieraccini, Interspeech 2011