Kristy Boyer

Also published as: Kristy Elizabeth Boyer


2018

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Toward Data-Driven Tutorial Question Answering with Deep Learning Conversational Models
Mayank Kulkarni | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

There has been an increase in popularity of data-driven question answering systems given their recent success. This pa-per explores the possibility of building a tutorial question answering system for Java programming from data sampled from a community-based question answering forum. This paper reports on the creation of a dataset that could support building such a tutorial question answering system and discusses the methodology to create the 106,386 question strong dataset. We investigate how retrieval-based and generative models perform on the given dataset. The work also investigates the usefulness of using hybrid approaches such as combining retrieval-based and generative models. The results indicate that building data-driven tutorial systems using community-based question answering forums holds significant promise.

2016

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Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned Semantics
Xiaolong Li | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2015

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Semantic Grounding in Dialogue for Complex Problem Solving
Xiaolong Li | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2014

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Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction
Alexandria Vail | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

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Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models
Aysu Ezen-Can | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

2013

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Learning Dialogue Management Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue with Parallel Dialogue and Task Streams
Eun Ha | Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Boyer | James Lester
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

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In-Context Evaluation of Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models for Tutorial Dialogue
Aysu Ezen-Can | Kristy Boyer
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

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Evaluating State Representations for Reinforcement Learning of Turn-Taking Policies in Tutorial Dialogue
Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Boyer | James Lester
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference

2012

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From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue
Christopher M. Mitchell | Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | James C. Lester
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

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Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Eun Young Ha | Joseph F. Grafsgaard | Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | James C. Lester
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

2011

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An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Kristy Boyer | Joseph Grafsgaard | Eun Young Ha | Robert Phillips | James Lester
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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The Impact of Task-Oriented Feature Sets on HMMs for Dialogue Modeling
Kristy Boyer | Eun Young Ha | Robert Phillips | James Lester
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference

2010

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Leveraging Hidden Dialogue State to Select Tutorial Moves
Kristy Boyer | Rob Phillips | Eun Young Ha | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
Kristy Boyer | Eun Y. Ha | Robert Phillips | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

2009

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Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | Robert Phillips | Eun Young Ha | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

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Inferring Tutorial Dialogue Structure with Hidden Markov Modeling
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | Eun Young Ha | Robert Phillips | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2008

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Learner Characteristics and Feedback in Tutorial Dialogue
Kristy Boyer | Robert Phillips | Michael Wallis | Mladen Vouk | James Lester
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications