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Marilyn A. Walker

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Papers indexed

131

Venues

18

Active years

1989–2025

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A*

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Papers

131 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025SIGdialDialogue Scaffolding: Producing a Realistic Corpus of Human-Computer Open-Domain Dialogues Using a Spoken Dialogue System and ChatGPT.Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker
2024EMNLPActive Listening: Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Social Conversation with User Model Based Prompting.Kevin Bowden, Yue Fan, Winson Chen, Wen Cui, Davan Harrison, Xin Wang, Marilyn A. Walker
2024SIGdial"Keep up the good work!": Using Constraints in Zero Shot Prompting to Generate Supportive Teacher Responses.E. Margaret Perkoff, Angela Maria Ramirez, Sean von Bayern, Marilyn A. Walker, James H. Martin
2024SIGdialKnowledge-Grounded Dialogue Act Transfer using Prompt-Based Learning for Controllable Open-Domain NLG.Alain Vazquez Risco, Angela Maria Ramirez, Neha Pullabhotla, Nan Qiang, Haoran Zhang, Marilyn A. Walker, Mara Ins Torres
2023SIGdialControllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking.Angela Ramirez, Kartik Agarwal, Juraj Juraska, Utkarsh Garg, Marilyn A. Walker
2022LRECOpenEL: An Annotated Corpus for Entity Linking and Discourse in Open Domain Dialogue.Wen Cui, Leanne Rolston, Marilyn A. Walker, Beth Ann Hockey
2021EMNLPAthena 2.0: Contextualized Dialogue Management for an Alexa Prize SocialBot.Marilyn A. Walker, Vrindavan Harrison, Juraj Juraska, Lena Reed, Kevin Bowden, Wen Cui, Omkar Patil, Adwait Ratnaparkhi
2021INLGAttention Is Indeed All You Need: Semantically Attention-Guided Decoding for Data-to-Text NLG.Juraj Juraska, Marilyn A. Walker
2020ACLBridging the Structural Gap Between Encoding and Decoding for Data-To-Text Generation.Chao Zhao, Marilyn A. Walker, Snigdha Chaturvedi
2020SIGdialLearning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation.Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby, Dilek Hakkani-Tr, Marilyn A. Walker
2019AAAICruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness.Geetanjali Rakshit, JiaQi Wu, Ryan Compton, Marilyn A. Walker, Pranav Anand, Steve Whittaker
2019ACLImplicit Discourse Relation Identification for Open-domain Dialogues.Mingyu Derek Ma, Kevin Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Wen Cui, Marilyn A. Walker
2019ACLCurate and Generate: A Corpus and Method for Joint Control of Semantics and Style in Neural NLG.Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Abteen Ebrahimi, Marilyn A. Walker
2019ICIDSThe Impact of Multi-character Story Distribution and Gesture on Children's Engagement.Harrison Jesse Smith, Brian K. Riley, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
2019INLGViGGO: A Video Game Corpus for Data-To-Text Generation in Open-Domain Conversation.Juraj Juraska, Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker
2018INLGNeural Generation of Diverse Questions using Answer Focus, Contextual and Linguistic Features.Vrindavan Harrison, Marilyn A. Walker
2018INLGCharacterizing Variation in Crowd-Sourced Data for Training Neural Language Generators to Produce Stylistically Varied Outputs.Juraj Juraska, Marilyn A. Walker
2018INLGCan Neural Generators for Dialogue Learn Sentence Planning and Discourse Structuring?Lena Reed, Shereen Oraby, Marilyn A. Walker
2018InterspeechNeural MultiVoice Models for Expressing Novel Personalities in Dialog.Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Sharath T. S., Shubhangi Tandon, Marilyn A. Walker
2018LRECSlugNERDS: A Named Entity Recognition Tool for Open Domain Dialogue Systems.Kevin Bowden, JiaQi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker
2018LRECExploring Conversational Language Generation for Rich Content about Hotels.Marilyn A. Walker, Albry Smither, Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Hadar Shemtov
2018NAACLA Deep Ensemble Model with Slot Alignment for Sequence-to-Sequence Natural Language Generation.Juraj Juraska, Panagiotis Karagiannis, Kevin Bowden, Marilyn A. Walker
2018SIGdialModeling Linguistic and Personality Adaptation for Natural Language Generation.Zhichao Hu, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2018SIGdialControlling Personality-Based Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Language Generators.Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Shubhangi Tandon, Sharath T. S., Stephanie M. Lukin, Marilyn A. Walker
2017ACLInference of Fine-Grained Event Causality from Blogs and Films.Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Marilyn A. Walker
2017ACLLearning Lexico-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect.Lena Reed, JiaQi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Pranav Anand, Marilyn A. Walker
2017EACLArgument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion.Stephanie M. Lukin, Pranav Anand, Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker
2017InterspeechTo Plan or not to Plan? Discourse Planning in Slot-Value Informed Sequence to Sequence Models for Language Generation.Neha Nayak, Dilek Hakkani-Tr, Marilyn A. Walker, Larry P. Heck
2017SIGdialInferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films.Zhichao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker
2017SIGdialAre you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog.Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker
2017SIGdialModelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative.Elahe Rahimtoroghi, JiaQi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand, Marilyn A. Walker
2016ICIDSM2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling.Kevin K. Bowden, Grace I. Lin, Lena I. Reed, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2016LRECInternet Argument Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for Dialogic Social Media and the Corpora to go with it.Rob Abbott, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand, Marilyn A. Walker
2016LRECA Corpus of Gesture-Annotated Dialogues for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation from Personal Narratives.Zhichao Hu, Michelle Dick, Chung-Ning Chang, Kevin Bowden, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2016LRECCoordinating Communication in the Wild: The Artwalk Dialogue Corpus of Pedestrian Navigation and Mobile Referential Communication.Kris Liu, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2016LRECPersonaBank: A Corpus of Personal Narratives and Their Story Intention Graphs.Stephanie M. Lukin, Kevin Bowden, Casey Barackman, Marilyn A. Walker
2016LRECA Verbal and Gestural Corpus of Story Retellings to an Expressive Embodied Virtual Character.Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Michael Neff, Marilyn A. Walker, Jean E. Fox Tree
2016LRECA Multimodal Motion-Captured Corpus of Matched and Mismatched Extravert-Introvert Conversational Pairs.Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Yingying Wang, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
2016NAACLAutomatically Inferring Implicit Properties in Similes.Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker
2016SIGdialMeasuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue.Amita Misra, Brian Ecker, Marilyn A. Walker
2016SIGdialCreating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue.Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, Ernesto Hernandez, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker
2016SIGdialLearning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events.Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez, Marilyn A. Walker
2015ACLJoint Models of Disagreement and Stance in Online Debate.Dhanya Sridhar, James R. Foulds, Bert Huang, Lise Getoor, Marilyn A. Walker
2015EMNLPLearning to Recognize Affective Polarity in Similes.Ashequl Qadir, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker
2015IVAStorytelling Agents with Personality and Adaptivity.Chao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree
2015IVANarrative Variations in a Virtual Storyteller.Stephanie M. Lukin, Marilyn A. Walker
2015NAACLUsing Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Idealogical Dialog.Amita Misra, Pranav Anand, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2015NAACLAnd That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue.Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Ryan Compton, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker
2015SIGdialGenerating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling.Stephanie M. Lukin, Lena Reed, Marilyn A. Walker
2015SIGdialArgument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue.Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker, Marilyn A. Walker
2014CogSciEvaluating Personality Trait Attribution Based on Gestures by Virtual Agents.Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
2014ICIDSCombinatorial Dialogue Authoring.James Owen Ryan, Casey Barackman, Nicholas Kontje, Taylor Owen-Milner, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014IVABuilding Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs.Stephanie M. Lukin, G. Michael Youngblood, Honglu Du, Marilyn A. Walker
2014LRECGetting Reliable Annotations for Sarcasm in Online Dialogues.Reid Swanson, Stephanie M. Lukin, Luke Eisenberg, Thomas Chase Corcoran, Marilyn A. Walker
2014SIGdialIdentifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories.Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Chase Corcoran, Marilyn A. Walker
2013EMNLPUnsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes.Zhichao Hu, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Larissa Munishkina, Reid Swanson, Marilyn A. Walker
2013ICIDSFully-Automatic Interactive Story Design from Film Scripts.Larissa Munishkina, Jennifer Parrish, Marilyn A. Walker
2013ICIDSGenerating Different Story Tellings from Semantic Representations of Narrative.Elena Rishes, Stephanie M. Lukin, David K. Elson, Marilyn A. Walker
2013IVAJudging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Question.Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
2013SIGdialTopic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue.Amita Misra, Marilyn A. Walker
2012LRECAn Annotated Corpus of Film Dialogue for Learning and Characterizing Character Style.Marilyn A. Walker, Grace I. Lin, Jennifer Sawyer
2012LRECA Corpus for Research on Deliberation and Debate.Marilyn A. Walker, Jean E. Fox Tree, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Joseph King
2012NAACLStance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion.Marilyn A. Walker, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Ricky Grant
2011FDGSpyFeet: an exercise RPG.Aaron A. Reed, Ben Samuel, Anne Sullivan, Ricky Grant, April Grow, Justin Lazaro, Jennifer Mahal, Sri Kurniawan, Marilyn A. Walker, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2011ICIDSPerceived or Not Perceived: Film Character Models for Expressive NLG.Marilyn A. Walker, Ricky Grant, Jennifer Sawyer, Grace I. Lin, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Buell
2011IVADon't Scratch! Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability.Michael Neff, Nicholas Toothman, Robeson Bowmani, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
2010FDGGrapevine: a gossip generation system.Foaad Khosmood, Marilyn A. Walker
2010IVABossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors.Nikolaus Bee, Colin Pollock, Elisabeth Andr, Marilyn A. Walker
2010IVAEvaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents.Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott, Marilyn A. Walker
2010SIGdialDynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems.Marilyn A. Walker
2009IVAEndowing Virtual Characters with Expressive Conversational Skills.Marilyn A. Walker
2008ACLTrainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation.Franois Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
2008ACLIntensional Summaries as Cooperative Responses in Dialogue: Automation and Evaluation.Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn A. Walker
2008IJCNLPPOLLy: A Conversational System that uses a Shared Representation to Generate Action and Social Language.Swati Gupta, Marilyn A. Walker, Daniela M. Romano
2007ACIIHow Rude Are You?: Evaluating Politeness and Affect in Interaction.Swati Gupta, Marilyn A. Walker, Daniela M. Romano
2007ACLPERSONAGE: Personality Generation for Dialogue.Franois Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
2006ACLLearning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances Using Reviews in Spoken Dialogue Systems.Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2006LRECSimulating Cub Reporter Dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives.Emma Barker, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Franois Mairesse, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Marilyn A. Walker, Jonathan Foster
2006LRECLearning Database Content for Spoken Dialogue System Design.Joseph Polifroni, Marilyn A. Walker
2006NAACLAutomatic Recognition of Personality in Conversation.Franois Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
2005InterspeechLearning to personalize spoken generation for dialogue systems.Franois Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
2004ACLTrainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentations in Spoken Dialog Systems.Amanda Stent, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2004LRECCan We Talk? Prospects for Automatically Training Spoken Dialogue Systems.Marilyn A. Walker
2003InterspeechA trainable generator for recommendations in multimodal dialog.Marilyn A. Walker, Rashmi Prasad, Amanda Stent
2003InterspeechShould i tell all?: an experiment on conciseness in spoken dialogue.Stephen Whittaker, Marilyn A. Walker, Preetam Maloor
2002ACLWhat's the Problem: Automatically Identifying Problematic Dialogues in DARPA Communicator Dialogue Systems.Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2002ACLMATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems.Michael Johnston, Srinivas Bangalore, Gunaranjan Vasireddy, Amanda Stent, Patrick Ehlen, Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Preetam Maloor
2002COLINGTowards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems.John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow, Marilyn A. Walker
2002INLGSpeech-Plans: Generating Evaluative Responses in Spoken Dialogue.Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, Preetam Maloor, Johanna D. Moore, Michael Johnston, Gunaranjan Vasireddy
2002InterspeechUser-tailored generation for spoken dialogue: an experiment.Amanda Stent, Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Preetam Maloor
2002InterspeechDARPA communicator evaluation: progress from 2000 to 2001.Marilyn A. Walker, Alexander I. Rudnicky, John S. Aberdeen, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John S. Garofolo, Helen Wright Hastie, Audrey N. Le, Bryan L. Pellom, Alexandros Potamianos, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Rashmi Prasad, Salim Roukos, Gregory A. Sanders, Stephanie Seneff, David Stallard
2002InterspeechDARPA communicator: cross-system results for the 2001 evaluation.Marilyn A. Walker, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Rashmi Prasad, John S. Aberdeen, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John S. Garofolo, Helen Wright Hastie, Audrey N. Le, Bryan L. Pellom, Alexandros Potamianos, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Salim Roukos, Gregory A. Sanders, Stephanie Seneff, David Stallard
2002LRECAutomatic Evaluation: Using a DATE Dialogue Act Tagger for User Satisfaction and Task Completion Prediction.Helen Wright Hastie, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2002LRECA Dependency Treebank for English.Owen Rambow, Cassandre Creswell, Rachel Szekely, Harriet Taber, Marilyn A. Walker
2002LRECFish or Fowl: A Wizard of Oz Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies in the Restaurant Domain.Steve Whittaker, Marilyn A. Walker, Johanna D. Moore
2002SIGdialTraining a Dialogue Act Tagger for Human-human and Human-computer Travel dialogues.Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. Walker
2001ACLEvaluating a Trainable Sentence Planner for a Spoken Dialogue System.Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker
2001ACLQuantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems.Marilyn A. Walker, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Julie E. Boland
2001CHIJust (all) the facts, ma'am.Dawn Dutton, Selina Chu, James Hubbell, Marilyn A. Walker, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
2001InterspeechVoice-IF: a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue system for AT&t conference services.Mazin G. Rahim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Candace A. Kamm, Marilyn A. Walker, A. Pokrovsky, P. Ruscitti, Esther Levin, Sungbok Lee, Ann K. Syrdal, K. Schlosser
2001InterspeechTraining a sentence planner for spoken dialog: the impact of syntactic and planning features.Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow
2001InterspeechDARPA communicator dialog travel planning systems: the june 2000 data collection.Marilyn A. Walker, John S. Aberdeen, Julie E. Boland, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John S. Garofolo, Lynette Hirschman, Audrey N. Le, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Kishore Papineni, Bryan L. Pellom, Joseph Polifroni, Alexandros Potamianos, P. Prabhu, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Gregory A. Sanders, Stephanie Seneff, David Stallard, Steve Whittaker
2001NAACLAmount of Information Presented in a Complex List: Effects on User Performance.Dawn Dutton, Marilyn A. Walker, Selina Chu, James Hubbell, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
2001NAACLNatural Language Generation in Dialog Systems.Owen Rambow, Srinivas Bangalore, Marilyn A. Walker
2001NAACLDATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems.Marilyn A. Walker, Rebecca J. Passonneau
2001NAACLSPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner.Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Rambow, Monica Rogati
2000AAAIEmpirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System.Satinder Singh, Michael J. Kearns, Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker
2000ACLLearning Attribute Selections for Non-Pronominal Expressions.Pamela W. Jordan, Marilyn A. Walker
2000COLINGAutomatic Optimization of Dialogue Management.Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder Singh, Marilyn A. Walker
2000ICMLA Boosting Approach to Topic Spotting on Subdialogues.Kary L. Myers, Michael J. Kearns, Satinder Singh, Marilyn A. Walker
2000ICMLUsing Natural Language Processing and discourse Features to Identify Understanding Errors.Marilyn A. Walker, Jeremy H. Wright, Irene Langkilde
2000InterspeechThe AT&t-DARPA communicator mixed-initiative spoken dialog system.Esther Levin, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Roberto Pieraccini, Konstantin Biatov, Enrico Bocchieri, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Wieland Eckert, Sungbok Lee, A. Pokrovsky, Mazin G. Rahim, P. Ruscitti, Marilyn A. Walker
2000LRECEvaluation for Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems.Marilyn A. Walker, Lynette Hirschman, John S. Aberdeen
2000LRECDeveloping and Testing General Models of Spoken Dialogue System Peformance.Marilyn A. Walker, Candace A. Kamm, Julie E. Boland
1999ACLAutomatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level.Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael S. Kearns
1998ACLEvaluating Response Strategies in a Web-Based Spoken Dialogue Agent.Diane J. Litman, Shimei Pan, Marilyn A. Walker
1998ACLLearning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email.Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne C. Fromer, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
1998CHIWhat can I say? Evaluating a Spoken Language Interface to Email.Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne C. Fromer, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Craig Mestel, Donald Hindle
1998InterspeechFrom novice to expert: the effect of tutorials on user expertise with spoken dialogue systems.Candace A. Kamm, Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker
1997ACLPARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents.Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm, Alicia Abella
1997EACLEvaluating Interactive Dialogue Systems: Extending Component Evaluation to Integrated System Evaluation.Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm, Alicia Abella
1997InterspeechEvaluating competing agent strategies for a voice email agent.Marilyn A. Walker, Donald Hindle, Jeanne C. Fromer, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Craig Mestel
1996AAAIDeciding to Remind During Collaborative Problem Solving: Empirical Evidence for Agent Strategies.Pamela W. Jordan, Marilyn A. Walker
1994AAAIExperimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the Task.Marilyn A. Walker
1994COLINGDiscourse and Deliberation- Testing a Collaborative Strategy.Marilyn A. Walker
1994INLGThe Role of Cognitive Modeling in Communicative Intentions.Owen Rambow, Marilyn A. Walker
1992COLINGRedundancy in Collaborative Dialogue.Marilyn A. Walker
1992COLINGA Case Study of Natural Language Customisation: The Practical Effects of World Knowledge.Marilyn A. Walker, Andrew L. Nelson, Phil Stenton
1991ACLCentering in Japanese Discourse.Marilyn A. Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
1990ACLMixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation.Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker
1989ACLEvaluating Discourse Processing Algorithms.Marilyn A. Walker