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Candace L. Sidner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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IVA - Using collaborative Discourse Theory to partially automate dialogue tree authoring
Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2012Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. SidnerAbstract:We have developed a novel methodology combining hierarchical task networks with traditional dialogue trees that both partially automates dialogue authoring and improves the degree of dialogue structure reuse. The key to this methodology is a lightweight utterance semantics derived from collaborative Discourse Theory, making it a step towards dialogue generation based on cognitive models rather than manual authoring. We have implemented an open-source tool, called Disco for Games (D4g), to support the methodology and present a fully worked example of using this tool to generate a dialogue about baseball.
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using collaborative Discourse Theory to partially automate dialogue tree authoring
Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2012Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. SidnerAbstract:We have developed a novel methodology combining hierarchical task networks with traditional dialogue trees that both partially automates dialogue authoring and improves the degree of dialogue structure reuse. The key to this methodology is a lightweight utterance semantics derived from collaborative Discourse Theory, making it a step towards dialogue generation based on cognitive models rather than manual authoring. We have implemented an open-source tool, called Disco for Games (D4g), to support the methodology and present a fully worked example of using this tool to generate a dialogue about baseball.
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Collaborative Discourse Theory as a Foundation for Tutorial Dialogue
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2002Co-Authors: Jeff Rickel, Charles Rich, Neal Lesh, Candace L. Sidner, Abigail S. GertnerAbstract:Research on intelligent tutoring systems has not leveraged general models of collaborative Discourse, even though tutoring is inherently collaborative. Similarly, research on collaborative Discourse Theory has rarely addressed tutorial issues, even though teaching and learning are important components of collaboration. We help bridge the gap between these two related research threads by presenting a tutorial agent, called Paco, that we built using a domain-independent collaboration manager, called Collagen. Our primary contribution is to show how a variety of tutorial behaviors can be expressed as rules for generating candidate Discourse acts in the framework of collaborative Discourse Theory.
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collagen applying collaborative Discourse Theory to human computer interaction
Ai Magazine, 2001Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, Neal LeshAbstract:We describe an approach to intelligent user interfaces, based on the idea of making the computer a collaborator, and an application-independent technology for implementing such interfaces.
Charles Rich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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using collaborative Discourse Theory to partially automate dialogue tree authoring
Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2012Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. SidnerAbstract:We have developed a novel methodology combining hierarchical task networks with traditional dialogue trees that both partially automates dialogue authoring and improves the degree of dialogue structure reuse. The key to this methodology is a lightweight utterance semantics derived from collaborative Discourse Theory, making it a step towards dialogue generation based on cognitive models rather than manual authoring. We have implemented an open-source tool, called Disco for Games (D4g), to support the methodology and present a fully worked example of using this tool to generate a dialogue about baseball.
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IVA - Using collaborative Discourse Theory to partially automate dialogue tree authoring
Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2012Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. SidnerAbstract:We have developed a novel methodology combining hierarchical task networks with traditional dialogue trees that both partially automates dialogue authoring and improves the degree of dialogue structure reuse. The key to this methodology is a lightweight utterance semantics derived from collaborative Discourse Theory, making it a step towards dialogue generation based on cognitive models rather than manual authoring. We have implemented an open-source tool, called Disco for Games (D4g), to support the methodology and present a fully worked example of using this tool to generate a dialogue about baseball.
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Collaborative Discourse Theory as a Foundation for Tutorial Dialogue
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2002Co-Authors: Jeff Rickel, Charles Rich, Neal Lesh, Candace L. Sidner, Abigail S. GertnerAbstract:Research on intelligent tutoring systems has not leveraged general models of collaborative Discourse, even though tutoring is inherently collaborative. Similarly, research on collaborative Discourse Theory has rarely addressed tutorial issues, even though teaching and learning are important components of collaboration. We help bridge the gap between these two related research threads by presenting a tutorial agent, called Paco, that we built using a domain-independent collaboration manager, called Collagen. Our primary contribution is to show how a variety of tutorial behaviors can be expressed as rules for generating candidate Discourse acts in the framework of collaborative Discourse Theory.
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collagen applying collaborative Discourse Theory to human computer interaction
Ai Magazine, 2001Co-Authors: Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, Neal LeshAbstract:We describe an approach to intelligent user interfaces, based on the idea of making the computer a collaborator, and an application-independent technology for implementing such interfaces.
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Evaluating the Contribution of Discourse Theory to an Interactive System
1993Co-Authors: Charles RichAbstract:An experiment is proposed which begins to systematically explore the potential contribution of Discourse Theory to the design of interactive systems. The experiment involves implementing and comparing two versions of a very simple system for planning air travel itineraries. One version of the system includes facilities based on Discourse Theory, the other does not. Neither system uses natural language. The long-term goal of this research is to develop a toolkit that can be used to add Discourse capabilities to any interactive system.
David Howarth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Discourse Theory in European Politics - Discourse Theory in European Politics
2020Co-Authors: David Howarth, Jacob TorfingAbstract:In the last decade Discourse Theory has gained an increasing prominence within the social sciences. Building on hermeneutical and poststructuralist insights Discourse theorists have created a well-established research program that challenges rationalist, individualist and other reductionistic approaches. Discourse Theory in European Politics presents a series of problem-driven empirical studies of identities, policies and new forms of governance in today's Europe. An international group of distinguished Discourse theorists analyse a broad set of topics such as European security and identity, administrative reforms, policy formation, eugenics and mass media debates. All contributions reflect on methodological issues and demonstrate the value of taking a Discourse theoretical approach to political analysis.
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Marx, Discourse Theory and political analysis: negotiating an ambiguous legacy
Critical Discourse Studies, 2018Co-Authors: David HowarthAbstract:This article argues that ‘post-Marxist’ or ‘poststructuralist Discourse Theory’ represents a complex deconstruction of the Marxist tradition of social and political Theory. Focussing on three ontol...
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Discourse Theory in european politics
2005Co-Authors: David Howarth, Jacob TorfingAbstract:In the last decade Discourse Theory has gained an increasing prominence within the social sciences. Building on hermeneutical and poststructuralist insights Discourse theorists have created a well-established research program that challenges rationalist, individualist and other reductionistic approaches. Discourse Theory in European Politics presents a series of problem-driven empirical studies of identities, policies and new forms of governance in today's Europe. An international group of distinguished Discourse theorists analyse a broad set of topics such as European security and identity, administrative reforms, policy formation, eugenics and mass media debates. All contributions reflect on methodological issues and demonstrate the value of taking a Discourse theoretical approach to political analysis.
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applying Discourse Theory the method of articulation
2005Co-Authors: David HowarthAbstract:Methodological questions play something of a Cinderella role in Discourse Theory. Although Discourse theorists attack mainstream approaches from an alternative epistemological and methodological standpoint — a stance that embodies a particular conception of social science — there are very few explicit theoretical statements of it. For the most part, such statements are either pitched at a high level of abstraction — dealing mainly with the formal ontological assumptions of Discourse Theory — or exist in what might be termed a practical state, that is, they are present in the outcomes of empirical research, but remain theoretically latent. This chapter begins the process of rectifying this ‘methodological deficit’ by focusing on the way Discourse Theory is applied to empirical objects of investigation. By reflecting upon existing research in the field and drawing upon the practice of conducting empirical research in Discourse Theory, especially with respect to protest movements in Britain and South Africa, I elaborate a method of articulatory practice that avoids the difficulties surrounding the mechanical application of ‘formal-abstract’ Theory to ‘real-concrete’ events and processes. This involves a logic of explanation that brings together and transforms a plurality of formal social logics, together with the political logics that constitute and contest the latter, in order to elucidate a carefully problematized instance of research.
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Discourse Theory in european politics identity policy and governance
2005Co-Authors: David Howarth, Jacob TorfingAbstract:Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Discourse Theory: Achievements, Arguments and Challenges J.Torfing European Integration and Security: Analysing French and German Discourses on State, Nation and Europe O.Waever Passions of Identification: Discourse, Enjoyment and European Identity Y.Stavrakakis Polity as Politics: Studying the Shaping and Effects of Discursive Politics A.D. Hansen & E.Sorensen Problematising the Mobilisation of Hospital Directors S.Griggs Political Administration N.Akerstrom Andersen The Human Rights Act: Politics, Power and the Law A.Clohesy Right-Wing Populism and the Radical Centre: Explaining the Electoral Growth of the Vlaams Blok in Belgium P.de Vlos Third Way Politics Today S.Bastow & J.Martin New Labour's Politics of the Hard-Working Family O.Reyes From Welfare to Social Exclusion: Eugenic Social Policies and the Swiss National Order V.Mottier Media Discourse and the Public Sphere L.Chouliariaki Coalitions, Practices and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE M.A.Hajer Conclusion: Applying Discourse Theory: The Method of Articulation D.Howarth Index
Thomas Jacobs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Operationalizing heterogeneity in poststructuralist Discourse Theory: the heterogeneous logics of international trade politics
Critical Discourse Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Thomas JacobsAbstract:Ever since an intense theoretical debate over a decade ago, the concept of heterogeneity has had a well-established place within poststructuralist Discourse Theory. It captures the interactions bet...
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The Dislocated Universe of Laclau and Mouffe: An Introduction to Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory
Critical Review, 2018Co-Authors: Thomas JacobsAbstract:Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory analyzes political ideas and action from a Marxist direction. However, while classic Marxian sociology is rooted in economic processes that “structure” society and ideas, Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory emphasizes the absence of any determinative principle. Thus, it radicalizes an ongoing shift in Marxism away from economic essentialism towards indeterminacy, contingency, and openness. The ideological superstructure becomes ever more important at the expense of the economic base; class struggle and relations of production lose analytical and strategic purchase in favor of a complex and integral form of politics; there are no deeper, natural foundations determining how society is organized and structured. Post-Structuralist Discourse Theorists argue that this orientation leads to a more satisfactory analysis of political practice than is possible through positivist research. Assessing this claim requires a survey of the hermetic terminology in which Post-Stru...
Lincoln Dahlberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics - Discourse Theory and critical media politics
2020Co-Authors: Lincoln Dahlberg, Sean PhelanAbstract:Note on Contributors Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction S.Phelan & L.Dahlberg Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions L.Dahlberg From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies O.Marchart What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign J.Gilbert Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal Wei-yuan Chang & J.Glynos The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory S.Phelan Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory J.Zeljko Bratich Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements N.Fenton Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics J.Simons Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials P.Dahlgren Index
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Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Lincoln DahlbergAbstract:Discourse Theory is, at its core, a Theory of politics: of the hegemonic formation of social relations — of Discourses — that necessarily involve hierarchies of power and relations of inclusion and exclusion. As such, Discourse is, in essence, political. And since discursive articulations and contestations rely on forms of mediation, ranging from body language to mass media representations, Discourse Theory can be thought of as fundamentally about media politics. Moreover, given its commitment to an examination of the discursive configurations of power constituting social relations, and its identification of practical strategies for changing such configurations, Discourse Theory can be understood as offering an approach to the critique of media politics, and indeed an approach to doing critical media politics.
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Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Sean Phelan, Lincoln DahlbergAbstract:The signifier Discourse is hardly an unfamiliar one in critical media, communication, and cultural studies. As a focal point of theoretical reflection, it may even be considered a bit passe — the residue of an earlier preoccupation with signification and language that has either been superseded by more fashionable theoretical vocabularies, or exposed for its inadequate attention to “real world” material concerns (Cloud, 1994; Philo & Miller, 2000). This objection could apply, in particular, to a Discourse theoretical tradition whose foundational moment was the 1985 publication of Laclau and Mouffe’s (2001), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. The objection might be: “but hasn’t all this ground been covered already?” “Given the range of already available texts,2 do we really need another book about Discourse in media and communication studies?” Our response to these objections is, naturally enough, an affirmative one: yes, another book about Discourse is needed, one with a specific theoretical focus that systematically explores what we see as the underdeveloped relationship between post-Marxist Discourse Theory and what this collection calls critical media politics.
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Discourse Theory and critical media politics
2011Co-Authors: Lincoln Dahlberg, Sean PhelanAbstract:Note on Contributors Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction S.Phelan & L.Dahlberg Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions L.Dahlberg From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies O.Marchart What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign J.Gilbert Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal Wei-yuan Chang & J.Glynos The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory S.Phelan Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory J.Zeljko Bratich Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements N.Fenton Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics J.Simons Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials P.Dahlgren Index
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Cyber-Libertarianism 2.0: A Discourse Theory/Critical Political Economy Examination
Cultural Politics: An International Journal, 2010Co-Authors: Lincoln DahlbergAbstract:Cyber-libertarian Discourse has recently made a “come-back” in popular technology and academic discussions about the democratic potential of “Web 2.0.” here, becoming a digital citizen means becoming an autonomous and creative “do-it-yourself citizen-consumer.” This paper identifies some of the limits of this “cyber-libertarian 2.0” Discourse. It does so first by drawing upon post-Marxist Discourse Theory to outline the central elements of the Discourse, and second by contrasting the cyber-libertarian understanding of “the situation” with a critical political economy reading that draws upon Debord’s Theory of “the spectacle.” The comparative analysis is structured by way of the normative categories “liberty,” “equality,” and “the demos,” which both Discourses embrace in different ways when speaking of digitally enabled democracy. The critical political economy reading identifies a range of factors limiting the extension of democracy through Web 2.0, factors that are not taken into account by the cyber-libertarian Discourse. Identifying such factors provides a starting point for a critical exploration of how democracy can be extended through the Internet. In conclusion, lines for such exploration are suggested, specifically in relation to a radical conception of democracy.