AAAI '96 Workshop
Portland, OR
August 4, 1996
Workshop schedule
8:30am Opening remarks
Session 1: Empirical data regarding the occurence of miscommunication
8:45am
"Toward error resolution for next-generation human language
technology and multimodal systems" Oviatt
9:15am Prevention and repair of breakdowns in a simple task domain
Hansen, Novick, and Sutton
9:45am Refining the categories of miscommunication
Jordan and Thomason
Break
11:00am Pragmatic issues in handling miscommunication: Observations of a spoken natural language dialog system
Smith and Gordon
Session 2: Strategies for identifying potential causes of breakdowns
11:30am Reducing miscommunication in spoken human-machine dialogue (Page 1)
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pages 6-8
Dybkjaer, Bernsen, and Dybkjaer
12:00pm Miscommunication in multi-modal collaboration
Traum and Dillenbourg
12:30--2:00pm LUNCH
Session 3: KR and Reasoning about miscommunication
2:00pm Conversational adequacy: Mistakes are the essence
Perlis and Purang
2:30pm An integrated approach to evaluating text coherence and its application to the prevention
of reader misconceptions
Donaldson, Makuta, and Cohen
3:00pm Tradeoffs in modelling participants' expectations about a dialogue
McRoy
3:30pm Break
Session 4: Repair in spoken language systems
4:00pm DISCO: A four-step dialogue recovery program
LuperFoy and Duff
4:30pm A genetic programming approach to
robust interactive dialogue interpretation
Carolyn Rose
5:00pm On the use of expectations for detecting and repairing human-machine miscommunication
Danieli
5:30pm Closing discussion
Position papers
Campbell
Nerzic
O'leary
Susan McRoy, Program Chair