Publications

• Reviewed Papers (workshops and conferences): here
• Journal Articles: here
• As Editor: here
• Book Chapters: here
• Doctoral Thesis: here
• Invited Presentations: here
• Technical Reports, Work in Progress, Other Stuff: here

Reviewed Papers

2010

• Heintze, S., Timo Baumman and David Schlangen. [2010] Comparing Local and Sequential Models for Statistical Incremental Natural Language Understanding in Proceedings of SIGdial 2010, Tokyo, Japan; September 2010
  pdf
• Schlangen, D., Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Okko Buß, Stefan Kopp, Gabriel Skantze, and Ramin Yaghoubzadeh. [2010] Middleware for Incremental Processing in Conversational Agents in Proceedings of SIGdial 2010, Short Papers; Tokyo, Japan; September 2010
  pdf
• Buß, O., Timo Baumann, and David Schlangen. [2010] Collaborating on Utterances with a Spoken Dialogue System Using an ISU-based Approach to Incremental Dialogue Management in Proceedings of SIGdial 2010, Short Papers; Tokyo, Japan; September 2010
  pdf
• Schlangen, D. [2010] Practices in Dialogue in Proceedings of SemDial 2010 (Pozdial), Posen, Poland; June 2010
  pdf
• Buß, O., David Schlangen [2010] Modelling Sub-Utterance Phenomena in Spoken Dialogue Systems in Proceedings of SemDial 2010 (Pozdial), Posen, Poland; June 2010
  pdf

2009

• Schlangen, D., Timo Baumann and Michaela Atterer [2009] Incremental Reference Resolution: The Task, Metrics for Evaluation, and a Bayesian Filtering Model that is Sensitive to Disfluencies in Proceedings of SIGdial 2009, London, UK; September 2009
  pdf / code and data
  Runner-up to Best Paper Award
  
• von der Malsburg, T., Timo Baumann and David Schlangen [2009] TELIDA: A Package for Manipulation and Visualisation of Timed Linguistic Data in Proceedings of SIGdial 2009, London, UK; September 2009
  short paper
  
• Baumann, T., Okko Buß, Michaela Atterer and David Schlangen [2009] Evaluating the Potential Utility of ASR N-Best Lists for Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK; September 2009
  pdf
  
• Atterer, M., Timo Baumann and David Schlangen [2009]. No Sooner Said Than Done? Testing Incrementality of Semantic Interpretations of Spontaneous Speech in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK; September 2009
  pdf
  
• Schlangen, D [2009] What we can learn from Dialogue Systems that don't work: On Dialogue Systems as Cognitive Models in Proceedings of DiaHolmia (Semdial 2009), Stockholm, Sweden; June 2009
  pdf / slides
  
• Baumann, T., Michaela Atterer and David Schlangen [2009] Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA; June 2009
  pdf / code
  
• Atterer, M. and David Schlangen [2009] RUBISC -- a Robust Unification-Based Incremental Semantic Chunker in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken Language 2009 (SRSL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 2009
  pdf
  
• Schlangen, D. and Gabriel Skantze [2009] A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing in Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009), pages 710-718, Athens, Greece, April 2009
  pdf
  
• Skantze, G. and David Schlangen [2009] Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain in Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009), pages 745-753, Athens, Greece, April 2009
  pdf
  

2008

• Atterer, M., Timo Baumann and David Schlangen [2008] Towards Incremental End-of-Utterance Detection in Dialogue Systems in Proceedings of Coling 2008
  short paper / poster
  
• Siebert, A. and David Schlangen [2008] A Simple Method for Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context in Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial WS on Discourse and Dialogue, Columbus, Ohio, USA; June 2008
  short paper / poster
  

2007

• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández [2007] Beyond Repair: Testing the Limits of the Conversational Repair System in Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial WS on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium; September 2007
  short paper / poster
  
• A. Siebert, David Schlangen and Raquel Fernández [2007] An Implemented Method for Distributed Collection and Assessment of Speech Data in Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial WS on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium; September 2007
  short paper / poster
  
• Fernández, R. and David Schlangen [2007] Referring under Restricted Interactivity Conditions in Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial WS on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium; September 2007
  short paper / short presentation
  
• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández [2007] Speaking through a noisy channel: Experiments on inducing clarification behaviour in human-human dialogue In Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 (ICSLP2007), Antwerp, Belgium; August 2007.
  schlangen_etal_is2007.pdf
  
• Ginzburg, J., Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen [2007] Unifying Self- and Other-Repair. In Proceedings of DECALOG, the 11th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL07), Trento, Italy, June 2007.
  ginzburg_etal_dekalog.pdf
  
• Fernández, R., David Schlangen and Tatjana Lucht [2007] Push-to-talk ain't always bad! Comparing Different Interactivity Settings in Task-oriented Dialogue. In Proceedings of DECALOG, the 11th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL07), Trento, Italy, June 2007.
  fernandez_etal_semdial07.pdf
  
• Fernández, R., Andrea Corradini, David Schlangen and Manfred Stede. [2007] Towards Reducing and Managing Uncertainty in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS'07), Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 2007.
  fernandez_et_al_iwcs2007.pdf
  

2006

• Fernández, R., Tatjana Lucht, Kepa Rodríguez, David Schlangen [2006] Interaction in Task-Oriented Human--Human Dialogue: The Effects of Different Turn-Taking Policies, In Proceedings of the First International IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba; December 2006
  fernandez_etal_slt2006.pdf
  
• Schlangen, D. [2006] From Reaction To Prediction: Experiments with Computational Models of Turn-Taking; Interspeech 2006 (ICSLP2006), Pittsburgh USA; September 2006.
  schlangen_intersp2006.pdf
  

2005

• Paslaru Bontas, E., David Schlangen and Thomas Schrader [2005] Creating Ontologies for Content Representation -- the OntoSeed suite, in Proceedings of the CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE; Springer Verlag; Agia Napa, Cyprus; October 2005.
  paslaruetal_odbase2005.pdf
  
• Schlangen, D. [2005] Towards Finding and Fixing Fragments: Using Machine Learning to Identify Non-Sentential Utterances and Their Antecedents in Multi-Party Dialogue, in Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, USA; June.
  schlangen_acl05.pdf
  
• Paslaru Bontas, E., David Schlangen and Sonja Niepage [2005] Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Annotation of Medical Data, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2005.
  paslaruetal_websem2005.pdf
  
• Schlangen, D., Thomas Hanneforth and Manfred Stede [2005] Weaving the Semantic Web: Extracting and Representing the Content of Pathology Reports, in Proceedings of the Meeting of the "Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung" (German Society for Computational Linguistics), Bonn, Germany; March.

2004

• Schlangen, D., Manfred Stede and Elena Paslaru Bontas [2004] Feeding OWL: Extracting and Representing the Content of Pathology Reports, in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004): RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology, Barcelona, Spain, July.
  nlpxml04.pdf
  
• Stede, M. and David Schlangen [2004] Information-Seeking Chat: Dialogues Driven by Topic-Structure, in Proceedings of Catalog '04 (The 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, SemDial04), Barcelona, Spain, July. (ISBN 84-609-2205-7)
  stedeschlangen_final.pdf; slides
  
• Rodríguez, Kepa J. and David Schlangen (2004). Forma, entonación y función de solicitudes de clarificación en diálogos instruccionales en alemán, Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural Nr: 33. July.
  rodrschl_sepln04.pdf
  
• Rodriguez, K.J. and David Schlangen [2004] Form, intonation and function of clarification requests in German task oriented spoken dialogues, Proceedings of Catalog '04 (The 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, SemDial04), Barcelona, Spain, July. (ISBN 84-609-2205-7)
  rodrschl_catalog.pdf
  
• Schlangen, D. [2004] Causes and Strategies for Requesting Clarification in Dialogue, in Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 04), Boston, USA, April.
  sigdial04.pdf; slides.pdf (if you want a brief summary of the paper...)

2003

• Schlangen, D., A. Lascarides, J. Baldridge [2003] A Tool for Semi-Automatic and Interactive Annotation of Dialogue-Utterances with Information-States, in Proceedings of DiaBruck (7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue) , Saarbrücken, Germany, September.
  published abstract, poster
  
• Schlangen, D. and A. Lascarides [2003] The Interpretation of Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue, in Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003.
  sigdial.pdf
  
• Schlangen, D. and A. Lascarides [2003] A Compositional and Constraint-Based Approach to Non-Sentential Utterances, in Stefan Müller (ed.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Michigan, USA, July 2003.
  hpsg_full.pdf
  

2002

• Schlangen, D. and A. Lascarides [2002] Resolving Fragments using Discourse Information, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG 2002), pp.161--168, Edinburgh, UK, September 2002.
  /papers/edilog.ps, pdf, abstract
  
• Schlangen, D. [2002] A Compositional Approach to Short-Answers, in Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 40th ACL, pp.54--59, Philadelphia USA, July 2002.
  acl02final.ps, acl02final.pdf

2001

• Schlangen, D., A. Lascarides and A. Copestake [2001] Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (BI-DIALOG 2001), Bielefeld Germany, June 2001.
  bidialog.rudi.ps, pdf, abstract
  

Journal Articles

• Paslaru, E. and David Schlangen [2006] Creating ontologies for content representation - the OntoSeed suite. In Journal of Data Semantics (9). Springer LNCS 4601.
• David Schlangen [2005] Modelling Dialogue: Challenges and Approaches. Künstliche Intelligenz (the Journal of the Section on Artificial Intelligence of the German Association for Computer Science); 3/05; pp.23--28; July 2005;
  pre-print version
  [ Note that this was an invited article and not fully peer reviewed. ]

As Editor

• Schlangen, D. and Beth Ann Hockey (eds.) [2008] Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue; Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 19-20, 2008; Workshop at HLT-ACL 2008; ISBN 978-1-932432-17-6; see also here.
  
  
• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández (eds.) [2006] Proceedings of brandial'06, the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue; Potsdam, Germany, 11-13th Sep 2006; published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam; ISBN 3-939469-29-7; see also here.

Book Chapters

• Ekaterina Jasinskaja, Jörg Mayer, David Schlangen [2004] Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Interfaces and Prosodic Realization. In Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.): Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 1., Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam
  Available here.
• Schlangen, D., A. Lascarides and A. Copestake [2003] Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information, in Hannes Rieser, Peter Kühnlein and Henk Zeevat (eds.), Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millenium Dialogue, pp. 289--307, Pragmatics and Beyond Series No. 114, John Benjamins, Amsterdam

Thesis

• Schlangen, D. [2003] A Coherence-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue, PhD Thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
  thesis.pdf, thesis.ps.gz

Invited Presentations

• Schlangen, D. [2009] ``A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing''; invited presentation at the International Workshop ``Incrementality in Verbal Interaction'' at the SFB 673 `Alignment in Communication', Bielefeld University, June 2009.
• Schlangen, D. [2008] ``Alignment, Timing, and Incremental Processing''; invited presentation at the Kolloquium of the SFB 673 `Alignment in Communication', Bielefeld University, November 2008
• Skantze, G. and David Schlangen [2008] ``Incremental Processing in the InPro / Higgins Numbers System''; invited presentation at the final `Dialogue Matters' Workshop; London, UK, June 2008
• Schlangen, D. [2007] ``When and How to Clarify: Evidence from Distorted Human-Human Dialogue''; invited presentation at the ICCS/HCRC Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh, UK; September 2007
• Fernández, Raquel and David Schlangen [2007] ``Decomposing Dialogue: Experiments with Distorted Conversation''; invited presentation in the panel on `Computational Pragmatics and Dialogue' at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 2007
• Schlangen, D. [2007] ``Speaking through a noisy channel: Experiments on inducing clarification behaviour in human-human dialogue''; invited presentation to the Annual Workshop of the International Research Training Group in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2007.
• Schlangen, D. [2007] ``Information-Seeking Chat as Exploration of Topic-Ontologies''; invited presentation to the KRDB group at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, May 2007.
• Schlangen, D. [2007] ``Dealing with uncertainty in dialogue .. by requesting clarification''; invited presentation to the `Natural Language and Information Processing' Group Seminar at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, March 2007.
• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández [2007] ``Speaking through a noisy channel: Experiments on Clarification Requests''; invited presentation at the ``Leverhulm Dialogue Matters Workshop'', Kings College / University of London, UK, February 2007.
• Schlangen, D., [2006] ``Ontology-Driven Disambiguation in an Information Extraction System''; invited presentation at the ``Japanese-German Workshop on Language Technology'', University of Tokyo, Japan, May 2006.
  [ A continuation of (Schlangen et al. 2005; Paslaru et al. 2005), with some new results, which will hopefully soon be published elsewhere. ]
• Schlangen, D., [2005] ``Modelling Dialogue in SDRT''; invited presentation at the international ``Status Colloquium on Dialogue Theories'', University of Bielefeld, November 17th-18th 2005.
  [ Mostly a review of the theory SDRT (as presented in (Asher & Lascarides 2003)), with some of my own work within this theory (Schlangen 2003; Schlangen 2005) tacked on at the end. But maybe useful to get an idea of SDRT and dialogue. ]
  slides
• Schlangen, D., [2005] ``Temporal Constraints in Discourse -- The Discourse Contribution of Silence''; invited presentation at the international workshop ``Constraints in Discourse'', University of Dortmund, June 3rd-5th 2005.
  [ ``Discourse contribution of silence''?? Yup. A first (for me) stab at taking seriously the idea of modelling dialogue with all its facets, including non-linguistic ones. I'm mostly addressing the easiest target here, namely significant silences; as is one small step in a larger enterprise, which is to connect models of interaction management and models of non-linguistic actions with models of dialogue structure without creating an unmanageable behemoth. ]
  slides
• Schlangen, D., [2005] ``A Computational Model of Turn-Taking and Grounding'', presented to the Konversationsanalytisches Kolloquium (CA colloquium) at the University of Potsdam; May 4th 2005
  [ What is needed to turn well-known models of turn-taking and grounding into computational models? More a sketch of a research program than actual research.. ]
• Schlangen, D., [2004] ``Wie bitte?'' -- Vom Umgang mit Verständnisproblemen (``Pardon?'' -- On dealing with understanding problems; despite the German title, the slides are mostly in English), presented to the Kolloquium at the IKP, University of Bonn, December 21st 2004.
  [ Mostly my SIGDial'04 stuff, but some new thoughts about the semantics/pragmatics interface, and what CRs tell us about it. ]
  slides
• The following presentations were given during a visit to the Tanaka/Tokunaga-Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in the fall of 2004. Note that despite having the same title, these are actually (slightly) different talks.
  • Schlangen, D., [2004] Modelling and Managing Dialogue: Approaches and Challenges, presented to the Spoken Language group (headed by Syun Tutiya) at Chiba University, October 4th 2004, and finally to my hosts in Japan, the NLP group at Tokyo Institute of Technology (headed by Prof. Tanaka and Tokunaga), October 6th 2004.
    [ Of course, the talks differed slightly. But only so slightly that it would be silly put both sets of slides up. Again focusses on SDRT and RUDI. ]
    slides
  • Schlangen, D., [2004] Modelling and Managing Dialogue: Approaches and Challenges, presented to the Natural Language Processing Group at Tokyo University, Tokyo, September 29th 2004.
    [ This is yet another completely different talk, focussing on SDRT and RUDI. Clever idea to give them all the same name, eh? ]
    slides
  • Schlangen, D., [2004] Modelling and Managing Dialogue: Approaches and Challenges, presented to the Natural Language Processing Group at NHK corp. Japan (Japan Broadcasting Corportation), Tokyo, September 27th 2004.
    [ This is more of an introductory talk.. So this time the title actually fits.. ]
    slides
  • Schlangen, D., [2004] Modelling and Managing Dialogue: Approaches and Challenges, presented at Kyoto University, Kyoto, September 24th 2004.
    [ I threw out the bit about PotBot (Stede and Schlangen 2004), but apart from that it's very similar to the Nara talk. ]
    slides
  • Schlangen, D., [2004] Modelling and Managing Dialogue: Approaches and Challenges, presented at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Centre), Nara, September 22nd 2004.
    [ The ancestor of them all. Ambitious program: say something about challenges (dialogue phenomena) and approaches, in particular about the stuff I've been working on. Does not fit into 60 minutes, unfortunately, so apologies, ATR guys... ]
    slides
• Schlangen, D., [2003] RUDI: Eine Implementation der Diskurssemantiktheorie SDRT, presented to the Semantic Circle of the Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin (associated to Humboldt University Berlin)

Technical Reports, Work in Progress, and other stuff

• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández [2008] The Potsdam Dialogue Corpora: Transcription and Annotation Manual, Technical Report InPro08-01, September 2008.
  PDC_TranscriptionAndAnnotationHB.pdf
• Schlangen, D. and Raquel Fernández [2008] The Potsdam Dialogue Corpora: Experiment Handbook, Technical Report InPro08-02, September 2008.
  PDC_ExperimentHandbook.pdf
• Schlangen, D., [2002] ``I think with a fork'': The Interpretation of Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue, Poster presented at the University of Edinburgh Division of Informatics Jamboree, Edinburgh, May 2002.
  eps-file
  
• Schlangen, D. and A. Lascarides, [2002] CETP: An automated theorem prover for a fragment of common sense entailment, May 2002, Edinburgh Informatics Report Series, EDI-INF-RR-0119
  The system, tarred and gnuzipped.