Field, D., S. Worgan, N. Webb, M. Hepple and Y. Wilks. Automatic Induction of Dialogue Structure from the Companions Dialogue Corpus, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, October 2008.
Machine Learning
Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging
Webb, N., T. Liu, M. Hepple and Y. Wilks. Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging, in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Marrakech, Morocco. 2008.
Investigating the Portability of Corpus Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification
Webb, N. and T. Liu. Investigating the Portability of Corpus Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification, in proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2008), Manchester, UK. 2008.
The AMITIES System: Data-Driven Techniques for Automated Dialogue
Hardy, H., A Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye, A. McKenzie, T. Strzalkowski, C. Ursu, N. Webb and M. Wu. The AMITIES System: Data-Driven Techniques for Automated Dialogue, in Speech Communication 48 (3-4), pages 354-373 . Elsevier. 2006.
Empirical determination of thresholds for optimal dialogue act classification
Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks. Empirical determination of thresholds for optimal dialogue act classification, in Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Nancy, 2005.
Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification
Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks. Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification, in proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Carlsbad, Czech Republic. 2005.
Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Language Dialogue
Webb, N., H. Hardy, C. Ursu, M. Wu, T. Strzalkowski and Y. Wilks. Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Language Dialogue, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, Pittsburgh, 2005.
Dialogue Act Classification using Intra-Utterance Features
Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks. Dialogue Act Classification using Intra-Utterance Features, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, Pittsburgh, 2005.
Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling
Wilks, Y., N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone. Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling, in Kuppervelt, Dybkjaer and Bernsen (eds.) Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Kluwer, Berlin, 2005.
Data Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System
Hardy, H., A. Biermann, R. B. Inouye, A. Mckenzie, T. Strzalkowski, C. Ursu, N. Webb, Min Wu. Data Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System, in proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004), Barcelona. 2004.