Abstract
Having recently joined the computer science faculty at UCSD, I shall be continuing my work on spontaneous discourse first started a number of years ago while I was at BBN. In this abstract, I review this past work and briefly describe some future plans.
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- A computational module for spontaneous discourse: UCSD
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