Ronnie W. Smith

Also published as: Ronnie Smith


2021

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Gaining Experience with Structured Data: Using the Resources of Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2
Ronnie Smith
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP

This paper describes a class project for a recently introduced undergraduate NLP course that gives computer science students the opportunity to explore the data of Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2 (DSTC 2). Student background, curriculum choices, and project details are discussed. The paper concludes with some instructor advice and final reflections.

2014

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Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking
Ronnie Smith
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

2012

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Assisting Social Conversation between Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Conversational Partners
Nancy Green | Curry Guinn | Ronnie Smith
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

2002

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A Dialog Architecture for Military Story Capture
Ronnie Smith | Brian Manning | Jon Rogers | Brian Adams | Mujibur Abdul | Amaury Alvarez
Proceedings of the Third SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

1997

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An Evaluation of Strategies for Selective Utterance Verification for Spoken Natural Language Dialog
Ronnie W. Smith
Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

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Performance Measures for the Next Generation of Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems
Ronnie W. Smith
Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real Applications

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Effects of Variable Initiative on Linguistic Behavior in Human-Computer Spoken Natural Language Dialogue
Ronnie W. Smith | Steven A. Gordon
Computational Linguistics, Volume 23, Number 1, March 1997

1995

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An Architecture for Voice Dialog Systems Based on Prolog-Style Theorem Proving
Ronnie W. Smith | D. Richard Hipp | Alan W. Biermann
Computational Linguistics, Volume 21, Number 3, September 1995

1993

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Efficient Collaborative Discourse: A Theory and Its Implementation
Alan W. Biermann | Curry I. Guinn | D. Richard Hipp | Ronnie W. Smith
Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, March 21-24, 1993

1992

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A Dialog Control Algorithm and Its Performance
Ronnie W. Smith | D. Richard Hipp | Alan W. Biermann
Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing