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2010


Strzalkowski, T., G. A. Broadwell, J. Stromer-Galley, S. Shaikh, S. Taylor and N. Webb

Modeling Socio-Cultural Phenomena in Discourse, in the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2010), Beijing, China. 2010.


Shaikh, S., T. Strzalkowski, S. Taylor and N. Webb

VCA: An Experiment With A Multiparty Virtual Chat Agent, in proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, Uppsala, Sweden. 2010.


Bradley, J., D. Benyon, O. Mival and N. Webb

Wizard of Oz Experiments and Companion Dialogues, in proceedings of the 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2010), Dundee, 2010.


Webb, N. and M. Ferguson

Automatic Extraction of Cue Phrases for Cross-Corpus Dialogue Act Classification, in the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2010), Beijing, China. 2010.


Stromer-Galley, J., P. Muhlberberger and N. Webb

Deliberative E-Rulemaking Decision Facilitation: Challenges to Enacting Real World Deliberation, at the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010), Leeds, UK. 2010.


Webb, N., D. Benyon, P. Hansen and O. Mival

Evaluating Human-Machine Conversation for Appropriateness, in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), Valletta, Malta. 2010.


Webb, N., D. Benyon, J. Bradley, P. Hansen and O. Mival

Wizard of Oz Experiments for a Companion Dialogue System: Eliciting Companionable Conversation, in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), Valletta, Malta. 2010.


Shaikh, S., T. Strzalkowski, S. Taylor and N. Webb

MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse, in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010), Valletta, Malta. 2010.


Webber, B. and N. Webb

Question Answering, in Clark, Fox and Lappin (eds.) Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Blackwells. 2010.


Webb, N. and S. Shaikh

Mapping from DSARMD and Switchboard Dialogue Act Labels into Superclass Labels. ILS Technical Report 011. February, 2010.


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2009


Webb, N. and B. Webber (eds.)

Introduction to Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Volume 15, Issue 1. Cambridge University Press. January 2009.


Strzalkowski, T., S. Taylor, S. Shaikh, B. Lipetz, H. Hardy, N. Webb,  T. Cresswell, M. Wu, Y. Zhan, T. Liu, and S. Chen

COLLANE: An experiment in computer-mediated tacit collaboration, in Marciniak and Mykowiecka (eds.) Aspects of Natural Language Processing: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Bolc on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5070, Springer-Verlag. 2009.


Webb, N.

Translating a Cue-Based Dialogue Act Classifier. ILS Technical Report 008. October, 2009.


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2008


Webb, N. and T. Liu

Investigating the Portability of Corpus Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification, in proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2008), Manchester, UK. 2008.


Muhlberger, P., N. Webb and J, Stromer-Galley

The Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project (DeER):  Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue, in proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2008), Montreal, Canada. 2008.


Webb, N., T. Liu, M. Hepple and Y. Wilks

Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Tagging, in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Marrakech, Morocco. 2008.


Kruschwitz, U, N. Webb and R. Sutcliffe.

Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search, in Jansen, Spink and

Taksa (eds.) Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis, Information Science Research, September 2008.


Benyon, D., P. Hansen and N. Webb

Evaluating Human-Computer Conversation in Companions, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, October 2008.


Field, D., S. Worgan, N. Webb, M. Hepple and Y. Wilks

Automatic Induction of Dialogue Structure from the Companions Dialogue Corpus, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, October 2008.


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2006


Hardy, H., A Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye, A. McKenzie, T. Strzalkowski, C. Ursu, N. Webb and M. Wu.

The AMITIES System: Data-Driven Techniques for Automated Dialogue, in Speech Communication 48 (3-4), pages 354-373 .  Elsevier. 2006.


Webb, N. (ed.)

HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interactive Question Answering. 2006.


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2005


Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks

Dialogue Act Classification using Intra-Utterance Features, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, Pittsburgh, 2005.


Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks

Empirical determination of thresholds for optimal dialogue act classification, in Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Nancy, 2005.


Webb, N., H. Hardy, C. Ursu, M. Wu, T. Strzalkowski and Y. Wilks

Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Language Dialogue, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding, Pittsburgh, 2005.


Webb, N., M. Hepple and Y. Wilks

Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification, in proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Carlsbad, Czech Republic. 2005.


Wilks, Y., N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone

Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling, in Kuppervelt, Dybkjaer and Bernsen (eds.) Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Kluwer, Berlin, 2005.


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2004


Hardy, H., A. Biermann, R. B. Inouye, A. Mckenzie, T. Strzalkowski, C. Ursu, N. Webb, Min Wu

Data Driven Strategies for an Automated Dialogue System, in proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004), Barcelona. 2004.


Wilks, Y., N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone

Human Dialogue Modelling Using Annotated Corpora, in proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004), Lisbon, Portugal. 2004.


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2003


Wilks, Y., N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone

Human dialogue modelling using machine learning, in Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova, Ruslan Mitkov (eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, Sel. papers from RANLP. 2003.


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2002


Hardy, H., K. Baker, L. Devillers, L. Lamel, S. Rosset, T. Strzalkowski, C. Ursu and N. Webb

Multi-layer Dialogue Annotation for Automated Multilingual Customer Service, in Proceedings of the ISLE Workshop on Dialogue Tagging for Multi-Modal Human Computer Interaction, Edinburgh, December 2002.


Catizone, R., A. Setzer, N. Webb and Y. Wilks

Very large-scale multilingual Information Extraction, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Event Modelling for Multilingual Document Linking (at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2002), Las Palmas. 2002.


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2001


Basili, R., R. Catizone, L. Padro, M. T. Pazienza, G. Rigau, A. Setzer, N. Webb, Y. Wilks, and F. M. Zanzotto.

Multilingual Authoring: the NAMIC Approach, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management (at ACL-EACL 2001), Toulouse, France, July 2001.


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2000


De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner and N. Webb.

YPA - an Assistant for Classified Directory Enquiries, in B. Azvine, N. Azarmi and D. Nauck (eds.): Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing: Prospects, Tools and Applications. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1804, pages 245-264. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.


Webb, N.

Rule-Based Dialogue Management Systems, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, July 2000.


Webb, N., A. De Roeck, U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner.

Evaluating a Natural Language Dialogue System: Results and Experiences, in Proceedings of the Workshop on From Spoken Dialogue to Full Natural Interactive Dialogue: Theory, Empirical Analysis and Evaluation (at the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2000), Athens, Greece, May 2000.


Kruschwitz, U., A. De Roeck, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner and N. Webb.

Extracting Semistructured Data - Lessons Learnt, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP2000): Filling the gap between theory and practice, Athens, Greece. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1835, pages 406-417. Springer Verlag. Berlin, 2000.


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1999


Kruschwitz, U., A. De Roeck, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner, N. Webb.

Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES'99), pages 34-37, IEE. Adelaide, 1999.


De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner and N. Webb.

Natural Language Access to Yellow Pages, in Adjunct Conference Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International'99), pages 257-258, München, 1999.


Webb, N., A. De Roeck, U. Kruschwitz, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner.

Natural Language Engineering: Slot-Filling in the YPA, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces, Dialogue and Partner Modelling (at the Fachtagung für Künstliche Intelligenz KI'99), Bonn, 1999.


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1998


De Roeck, A., U. Kruschwitz, P. Neal, P. Scott, S. Steel, R. Turner and N. Webb.

YPA - An Intelligent Directory Enquiry Assistant, in BT Technology Journal (BTTJ), Vol 16(3), pages 145-155. July 1998.


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