Browsing School of Computer Science and Statistics by Author "Clark, Leigh"

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    • Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Levacher, Killian; Cerrato, Loredana; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Clark, Leigh; Calvo, Arturo (2017)
      Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ...

    • Identifying Topic Shift and Topic Shading in Switchboard 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Clark, Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)
      This paper highlights some of the ongoing work on the ADELE project, namely the identification and annotation of topic shift and topic shading in the Switchboard-1 Release-2 corpus. The purpose of this is to train an ...

    • What makes a good conversation? Challenges in designing truly conversational agents 

      Clark, Leigh; Pantidi, Nadia; Cooney, Orla; Doyle, Philip; Garaialde, Diego; Edwards, Justin; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Murad, Christine; Munteanu, Cosmin; Wade, Vincent; Cowan, Benjamin R. (ACM, 2019-05)
      Conversational agents promise conversational interaction but fail to deliver. Efforts often emulate functional rules from human speech, without considering key characteristics that conversation must encapsulate. Given its ...