Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community

no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry, Katherine Atwell, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Felix Gervits, Zhao Han, Mert Inan, Michael Johnston, Raj Korpan, Diane Litman, Matthew Marge, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Shiwali Mohan, Raymond Mooney, Natalie Parde, Jivko Sinapov, Angela Stewart, Matthew Stone, Stefanie Tellex, Tom Williams

The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected.

Turn-Taking Strategies for Human-Robot Peer-Learning Dialogue

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Ranjini Das, Heather Pon-Barry

In this paper, we apply the contribution model of grounding to a corpus of human-human peer-mentoring dialogues.

Discourse Analysis of User Forums in an Online Weight Loss Application

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Lydia Manikonda, Heather Pon-Barry, Subbarao Kambhampati, Eric Hekler, David W. McDonald

Eliciting and Annotating Uncertainty in Spoken Language

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Shieber, Nicholas Longenbaugh

In such applications, we would like to know the speaker{'}s actual level of certainty, but past research has only revealed listeners{'} perception of the speaker{'}s level of certainty.

Finding Eyewitness Tweets During Crises

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Fred Morstatter, Nichola Lubold, Heather Pon-Barry, Jürgen Pfeffer, Huan Liu

These agencies look for tweets from within the region affected by the crisis to get the latest updates of the status of the affected region.

Disaster Response