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Walker, M. A., J. C. Fromer, and S. Narayanan, "Learning optimal dialogue strategies: a case study of a spoken dialogue agent for email", Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1345–1351, 1998.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Controlling User Perceptions of Linguistic Style: Trainable Generation of Personality Traits", Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Walker, M. A., and E. F. Prince, Reference accessibility, , 1995.
Langkilde, I., M. A. Walker, J. Wright, A. Gorin, and D. Litman, "Automatic Prediction of Problematic Human-Computer Dialogues in How May I Help You?", ASRU99, 1999.
Walker, M. A., D. J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella, Paradise: a framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents, , San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., pp. 631–641, 1998.
Walker, M. A., A. L. Nelson, and P. Stenton, "A case study of natural language customisation: the practical effects of world knowledge", Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 820–826, 1992.
Polifroni, J., and M. A. Walker, "Learning Database Content for Spoken Dialogue System Design", Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)2006, Genoa, May, 2006.
Chen, J., S. Bangalore, O. Rambow, and M. A. Walker, "Towards automatic generation of natural language generation systems", Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–7, 2002.
Singh, S. P., M. J. Kearns, D. J. Litman, and M. A. Walker, "Empirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System", Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence: AAAI Press, pp. 645–651, 2000.
Rogati, M., M. A. Walker, and O. Rambow, "Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialog: The Impact of Syntactic and Planning Features", EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing, 2001.
Walker, M. A., "Can We Talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue System", Language Resources and Evaluation, vol. 39, no. 1: Springer, pp. 65-75, 2005.
Walker, M. A., Informational redundancy and resource bounds in dialogue, , Philadelphia, PA, USA, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Walker, M. A., "Toward a Model of the Interaction of Centering with Global Discourse Structure", Verbum, 2000.
Walker, M. A., and S. Whittaker, "Mixed initiative in dialogue: an investigation into discourse segmentation", Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 70–78, 1990.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-driven Parameter Estimation", 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, June 2008.
Walker, M. A., C. Kamm, and J. Boland, "Developing And Testing General Models Of Spoken Dialogue System Perfor mance", Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2000.
Walker, M. A., "Review of "Using language" by Herbert H. Clark. Cambridge University Press 1996.", Comput. Linguist., vol. 23, no. 4, Cambridge, MA, USA, MIT Press, pp. 625–628, 1997.
Litman, D. J., M. S. Kearns, S. P. Singh, and M. A. Walker, "Automatic optimization of dialogue management", Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 502–508, 2000.
Whittaker, S., M. A. Walker, and P. Maloor, "Should I Tell All? An Experiment On Conciseness in Spoken Dialogue", EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing, Geneva, pp. 1685-1689, 2003.
Walker, M. A., J. H. Wright, and I. Langkilde, "Using Natural Language Processing and discourse Features to Identify Understanding Errors", ICML ’00: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., pp. 1111–1118, 2000.
Walker, M. A., D. J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella, "Evaluating interactive dialogue systems: extending component evaluation to integrated system evaluation", ISDS ’97: Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems on Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real Applications, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–8, 1997.
Jordan, P. W., and M. A. Walker, "Learning content selection rules for generating object descriptions in dialogue", J. Artif. Int. Res., vol. 24, no. 1, USA, AI Access Foundation, pp. 157–194, 2005.
Walker, M. A., "Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue by Default Rules of Inference", Language and Speech, vol. 39, no. 2, 1996.
Hastie, H. W., M. A. Walker, and R. Prasad, "Automatic Evaluation: Using a DATE Dialogue Act Tagger for User Satisfaction and Task Completion Prediction", Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2002.
Singh, S. P., D. Litman, M. Kearns, and M. A. Walker, "Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: experiments with the NJFun system", J. Artif. Int. Res., vol. 16, no. 1, USA, AI Access Foundation, pp. 105–133, 2002.
Myers, K., M. J. Kearns, S. P. Singh, and M. A. Walker, "A Boosting Approach to Topic Spotting on Subdialogues", ICML ’00: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., pp. 655–662, 2000.
Polifroni, J., and M. A. Walker, "Intensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation", Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Columbus, June, 2008.
Kamm, C., M. A. Walker, and L. Rabiner, "The role of speech processing in human–-computer intelligent communication", Speech Commun., vol. 23, no. 4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., pp. 263–278, 1997.
Walker, M. A., "Discourse and deliberation: testing a collaborative strategy", Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1205–1211, 1994.
Walker, M. A., J. Boland, and C. Kamm, "The Utility of Elapsed Time as a Usability Metric for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ASRU99, 1999.
Higashinaka, R., R. Prasad, and M. A. Walker, "Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems", COLING-ACL, Australia, 2006.
Walker, M. A., J. E. Cahn, and S. J. Whittaker, "Improvising linguistic style: social and affective bases for agent personality", AGENTS ’97: Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 96–105, 1997.
Walker, M. A., "Testing collaborative strategies by computational simulation: Cognitive and task effects", Knowledge Based Systems, 1995.
Johnston, M., S. Bangalore, G. Vasireddy, A. Stent, P. Ehlen, M. A. Walker, S. Whittaker, and P. Maloor, "MATCH: an architecture for multimodal dialogue systems", ACL ’02: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 376–383, 2002.
Bee, N., C. Pollock, E. André, and M. A. Walker, "Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors", Intelligent Virtual Agents, Philadelphia, 2010.
Walker, M. A., A. Rudnicky, J. Aberdeen, E. Bratt, J. Garofolo, H. Hastie, A. Le, Bryan Pellom, A. Potamianos, R. Passonneau, et al., "DARPA Communicator Evaluation: Progress from 2000 to 2001", ICSLP, 2002.
Walker, M. A., "Redundancy in collaborative dialogue", Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 345–351, 1992.
Litman, D. J., M. A. Walker, and M. S. Kearns, "Automatic detection of poor speech recognition at the dialogue level", Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 309–316, 1999.
Singh, S., M. S. Kearns, Diane J. Litman, and M. A. Walker, "Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems", Proceedings of NIPS*99, 1999.
Prasad, R., and M. A. Walker, "Training a Dialogue Act Tagger for human-human and human-computer travel dialogues", Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 162–173, 2002.
Walker, M. A., "Evaluating discourse processing algorithms", Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 251–261, 1989.
Jordan, P., and M. A. Walker, "Learning attribute selections for non-pronominal expressions", ACL ’00: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 181–190, 2000.
Neff, M., Y. Wang, R. Abbott, and M. A. Walker, "Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents", Intelligent Virtual Agents, Philadelphia, Springer, 2010.
Walker, M. A., S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, and G. Vasireddy, "Generation and Evaluation of User Tailored Responses in Multimodal Dialogue", Cognitive Science, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 811-840, September-Octobe, 2004.
Higashinaka, R., R. Prasad, and M. A. Walker, "Augmenting Variation of System Utterances using Corpora in Spoken Dialogue Systems", IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Puerto Rico, 2005.
Litman, D., S. P. Singh, M. Kearns, and M. A. Walker, "NJFun: a reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system", ConversationalSys ’00: Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 17–20, 2000.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation", HLT-NAACL 2006: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers on XX, New York, NY, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2006.
Whittaker, S., M. A. Walker, and J. Moore, "Fish or Fowl: A Wizard of Oz Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies in the Restaurant Domain", Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2002.
Walker, M. A., and O. Rambow, "The role of cognitive modeling in achieving communicative intentions", INLG ’94: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 171–180, 1994.
Walker, M. A., and P. W. Jordan, "Design-World: a testbed of communicative action and resource limits", SIGART Bull., vol. 6, no. 2, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 34–38, 1995.
Levin, E., Narayanan, S., Pieraccini, R., Biatov, K., Bocchieri, E., G. Di Fabbrizio, Eckert, W., Lee, S., Pokrovsky, A., Rahim, M., et al., "The AT&T DARPA Communicator Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialog System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000.
Polifroni, J., and M. A. Walker, "An Analysis of Automatic Content Selection Algorithms for Spoken Dialogue System Summaries", IEEE/ACL, Aruba, 2006.
Khosmood, F., and M. A. Walker, "Grapevine: a gossip generation system", FDG ’10: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 92–99, 2010.
Walker, M. A., "Limited attention and discourse structure", Comput. Linguist., vol. 22, no. 2, Cambridge, MA, USA, MIT Press, pp. 255–264, 1996.
Mairesse, F., M. A. Walker, M. Mehl, and R. Moore, "Using Linguistic Cues for the Automatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation and Text", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 30, pp. 457-500, 2007.
Whittaker, S., and M. A. Walker, Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Walker, M. A., J. Aberdeen, J. Boland, E. Bratt, J. Garofolo, L. Hirschman, A. Le, S. Lee, S. Narayanan, K. Papineni, et al., "DARPA Communicator Dialog Travel Planning Systems: The June 2000 Data Collection", EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing, 2001.
Walker, M. A., R. Passonneau, and J. E. Boland, "Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Darpa Communicator spoken dialogue systems", ACL ’01: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 515–522, 2001.
Walker, M. A., "An application of reinforcement learning to dialogue strategy selection in a spoken dialogue system for email", J. Artif. Int. Res., vol. 12, no. 1, USA, AI Access Foundation, pp. 387–416, 2000.
Gupta, S., M. A. Walker, and D. M. Romano, "POLLy: A Conversational System that uses a Shared, Representation to Generate Action and Social Language", IJCNLP 2008, The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, January, 2008.
Stent, A., R. Prasad, and M. A. Walker, "Trainable sentence planning for complex information presentation in spoken dialog systems", ACL ’04: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 79, 2004.
Rambow, O., M. Rogati, and M. A. Walker, "Evaluating a trainable sentence planner for a spoken dialogue system", ACL ’01: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 434–441, 2001.
Dutton, D., S. Chu, J. Hubbell, M. A. Walker, and S. Narayanan, "Just (all) the facts, ma’am", CHI ’01: CHI ’01 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 133–134, 2001.
Rahim, M., G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Kamm, M. A. Walker, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, E. Levin, S. Lee, A. Syrdal, and K. Schlosser, "Voice-If: a Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialogue System for AT&T Conference Services", EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing, 2001.
Walker, M. A., Diane J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella, "Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents with {PARADISE}: Two Case Studies: Two Case Studies", Computer Speech and Language, vol. 12, no. 3, 1998.
Walker, M. A., R. Prasad, and A. Stent, "A Trainable Generator for Recommendations in Multimodal Dialog", EUROSPEECH: European Conference on Speech Processing, Geneva, pp. 1697-1701, 2003.
Walker, M. A., "Natural language in a desktop environment", Proceedings of the third international conference on human- computer interaction on Designing and using human-computer interfaces and knowledge based systems (2nd ed.), New York, NY, USA, Elsevier Science Inc., pp. 502–509, 1989.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Words Mark the Nerds: Computational Models of Personality Recognition through Language", 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, July 2006.
Walker, M. A., L. Hirschman, and J. Aberdeen, "Evaluation For Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems", Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2000.
Walker, M. A., "The effect of resource limits and task complexity on collaborative planning in dialogue", Artif. Intell., vol. 85, no. 1-2, Essex, UK, Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd., pp. 181–243, 1996.
Walker, M. A., and R. Passonneau, "DATE: a dialogue act tagging scheme for evaluation of spoken dialogue systems", HLT ’01: Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–8, 2001.
Walker, M. A., S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, and G. Vasireddy, "Speech plans: generating evaluative responses in spoken dialogue", International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2002.
Hastie, H. W., R. Prasad, and M. A. Walker, "What’s the trouble: automatically identifying problematic dialogues in DARPA communicator dialogue systems", ACL ’02: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 384–391, 2002.
Walker, M. A., "Experimentally evaluating communicative strategies: the effect of the task", AAAI ’94: Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1), Menlo Park, CA, USA, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 86–93, 1994.
Walker, M. A., I. Langkilde, J. H. Wright, A. Gorin, and D. Litman, "Learning to predict problematic situations in a spoken dialogue system: experiments with how may I help you?", Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., pp. 210–217, 2000.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Towards Personality-Based User Adaptation: Psychologically Informed Stylistic Language Generation", User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, vol. 20, issue 3, 2010.
Walker, M. A., and O. Rambow, "Spoken Language Generation", Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation, July, 2002.
Walker, M. A., A. Rudnicky, J. Aberdeen, E. Bratt, J. Garofolo, H. Hastie, A. Le, Bryan Pellom, A. Potamianos, R. Passonneau, et al., "DARPA Communicator: Cross-System Results for the 2001 Evaluation", ICSLP, 2002.
Walker, M. A., D. J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella, "PARADISE: a framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents", Proceedings of the eighth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 271–280, 1997.
Dutton, D., S. Chu, J. Hubbell, M. A. Walker, and S. Narayanan, "Amount of information presented in a complex list: effects on user performance", HLT ’01: Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–6, 2001.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "Learning to Personalize Spoken Generation for Dialogue Systems", Proceedings of Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech: 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, pp. 1881-1884, September, 2005.
Walker, M. A., C. Kamm, and D. Litman, "Towards developing general models of usability with PARADISE", Nat. Lang. Eng., vol. 6, no. 3-4, New York, NY, USA, Cambridge University Press, pp. 363–377, 2000.
Walker, M. A., and J. D. Moore, "Empirical studies in discourse", Comput. Linguist., vol. 23, no. 1, Cambridge, MA, USA, MIT Press, pp. 1–12, 1997.
Stent, A., M. A. Walker, S. Whittaker, and P. Maloor, "User-Tailored Generation for Spoken Dialogue: An Experiment", ICSLP, 2002.
Walker, M. A., Centering in Discource, : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Walker, M. A., S. Cote, and M. Iida, "Japanese discourse and the process of centering", Comput. Linguist., vol. 20, no. 2, Cambridge, MA, USA, MIT Press, pp. 193–232, 1994.
Walker, M. A., O. Rambow, and M. Rogati, "Training a Sentence Planner for Spoken Dialogue Using Boosting", Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation, July, 2002.
Rambow, O., S. Bangalore, and M. A. Walker, "Natural language generation in dialog systems", HLT ’01: Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–4, 2001.
Mairesse, F., and M. A. Walker, "PERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue", 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, June 2007.
Kamm, C., M. A. Walker, and D. Litman, "Evaluating Spoken Language Systems", Proceedings of American Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS), 1999.
Walker, M. A., O. Rambow, and M. Rogati, "SPoT: a trainable sentence planner", NAACL ’01: Second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies 2001, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–8, 2001.
Walker, M. A., I. Langkilde-Geary, H. W. Hastie, J. H. Wright, and A. Gorin, "Automatically training a problematic dialogue predictor for a spoken dialogue system", J. Artif. Int. Res., vol. 16, no. 1, USA, AI Access Foundation, pp. 293–319, 2002.
Barker, E., R. Higashinaka, F. Mairesse, Robert Gaizauskas, M. A. Walker, and J. Foster, "Simulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives", Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, May, 2006.
Walker, M. A., J. Fromer, G. Di Fabbrizio, C. Mestel, and D. Hindle, "What can I say?: evaluating a spoken language interface to Email", CHI ’98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., pp. 582–589, 1998.
Litman, D. J., S. Pan, and M. A. Walker, "Evaluating response strategies in a Web-based spoken dialogue agent", Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 780–786, 1998.
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Reed, A. A., "Sharing Authoring with Algorithms: Procedural Generation of Satellite Sentences in Text-based Interactive Stories.", FDG 2012: Third Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games, Raleigh, North Carolina, 06/2012. Abstract  Download: almostgoodbye-paper.pdf (194.04 KB)
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