The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …

Spoken dialogue systems allow users to interact with computer-based applications such as
databases and expert systems by using natural spoken language. The origins of spoken …

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first
appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is …

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding,
integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades …

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current
status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web …

In this paper we explore a new theory of discourse structure that stresses the role of purpose
and processing in discourse. In this theory, discourse structure is composed of three …

Natural language interfaces for visualizations have emerged as a promising new way of
interacting with data and performing analytics. Many of these systems have fundamental …

A new computational framework is presented, called agent-oriented programming (AOP),
which can be viewed as a specialization of object-oriented programming. The state of an …

Whereas it is well documented that student question asking is infrequent in classroom
environments, there is little research on questioning processes during tutoring. The present …

This paper is an introduction to natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBS). A brief
overview of the history of NLIDBS is first given. Some advantages and disadvantages of …