At CS Day on February 18, 2005, Carol Nichols won the best undergraduate award, and Mihai Rotaru won the graduate research competition award. Great job to both of you!
One of the purposes of our NLP meeting is to have an opportunity to read
and discuss new research. Art will briefly present, then lead discussion
of the paper: "Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue" by Martin
Pickering and Simon Garrod. This paper proposes a mechanism of automatic
alignment, by which two dialogue partners come to use similar semantic,
syntactic, lexical and phonological representations. The resulting
alignment simplifies the production and comprehension of dialogue.
Art will forward a PDF to the NLP mailing list. If you don't get your copy, please let him know.