We propose a framework for analyzing episodic conversational activities in terms of expressed relationships between the participants and utterance content.
Meeting Structure Annotation
We describe a generic set of tools for representing, annotating, and analysing multi-party discourse, including: an ontology of multimodal discourse, a programming interface for that ontology, and NOMOS – a flexible and extensible toolkit for browsing and annotating discourse.
Automatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction
We investigate, through the transformation of human annotations into hypothetical idealized user interactions, the relative utility of various modes of user interaction and techniques for their interpretation.
Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding
We explore interfaces for presenting this information to users after a meeting is completed, using two post-meeting interfaces that display information from topics and action items respectively.
Resolving ”You” in Multi-Party Dialog
This paper presents experiments into the resolution of “you” in multi-party dialog, dividing this process into two tasks: distinguishing between generic and referential uses; and then, for referential uses, identifying the referred-to addressee(s).
Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed, discussed and committed to; and secondly, extracting the phrases that accurately capture or summarize the tasks they involve.
A meeting browser that learns
We present a system for extracting useful information from multi-party meetings and presenting the results to users via a browser.
A Case Study in Engineering a Knowledge Base for an Intelligent Personal Assistant
We present a case study in engineering a large knowledge base (KB) to meet the requirements of a personal assistant. We discuss our KB development methodology and the engineering challenges we faced in the process.
NOMOS: A Semantic Web software framework for annotation of multimodal corpora
We present NOMOS, an open-source software framework for annotation, processing, and analysis of multimodal corpora.