Evaluating Human-Computer Conversation in Companions

Benyon, D., P. Hansen and N. Webb. Evaluating Human-Computer Conversation in Companions, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, October 2008.

Automatic Induction of Dialogue Structure from the Companions Dialogue Corpus

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.

Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search

Kruschwitz, U, N. Webb and R. Sutcliffe. Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search, in Jansen, Spink and Taksa (eds.), September 2008.

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 Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project (DeER): Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue

Muhlberger, P., N. Webb and J, Stromer-Galley. The Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project (DeER):  Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue, in proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2008), Montreal, Canada. 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.

HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interactive Question Answering

Webb, N. (ed.). HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interactive Question Answering. 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.