In order to increase the role of machines in supporting more capabilities as regards a spoken dialogue system, we present in this paper a new problem incorporating multi-session in...
1 The Decision Support Information Gathering System, Digs, uses influence diagrams to model user's decisions and to calculate the value of imperfect information for each avail...
Recent proposals for computer-assisted argumentation have drawn on dialectical models of argumentation. When used to assist public policy planning, such systems also raise questio...
Our research on Interactive Drama aims at conciliating interaction and story at the deepest level, the level of action. From a given story representation formalism, a set of eleme...
The representation and manipulation of natural human understanding of temporal phenomena is a fundamental field of study in Computer Science, which aims both to emulate human think...