Bill Mann et. al. on Dialogue
Unlike the other topics in this website, my interests and work on dialogue are only partly represented on this page. Two pieces are elsewhere: they are
What is NOT absent is a range of concerns, reports, publications and exploratory memos. I hope that students and other researchers find it interesting. In particular, there is access below to the following:
- Dialogue Macrogame Theory -- This has a website of its own, which can be accessed here: DMT
- The Dialogue Diversity Corpus -- This corpus of dialogues and access point and methods for finding dialogues is intended to facilitate research on natural dialogue. It also has its own independent website, which can be accessed here: DDC.
- A review of the early history of this line of development, 1975-1999.
- A memo on the nature of dialogue.
- A list of reports and publications involving dialogue.
- A memo on dialogue and resumption, i.e. the effects in dialogue of the condition in which the two participants have interacted before, perhaps many times. The memo is available for download in either PDF form or DOC form.
- There is also a Diabruck conference paper, by Joern Kreutel and me. It explores the formalization of the DMT idea of a bid, downloadable as a PDF file.
- There is a memo on Comprehensive Theories of Dialogue, which examines the idea of having one theory cover every kind of dialogue. It also examines the use of "conversation" as a cover term for all of dialogue.
- There is also a memo on coherence in dialogue. Because it is really broader than dialogue, it is listed here and also in the Intentions and Coherence section of this website.