This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the fieldfrom a variety of leading researchers. In one volume readers gain exposure toseveral ... » 

This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the fieldfrom a variety of leading researchers. In one volume readers gain exposure toseveral perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis dialoguesystem construction as well as theoretical perspectives on communicativeintention contextbased generation and modelling of discourse structure. Inthis book you will find high quality articles representing current and newdirections in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue SystemsCorpora and Corpus Tools and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse andDialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstandingpapers presented at the 2nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held inconjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with fourinvited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse anddialogue. «