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Gregory Mills

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address

Interaction, Media and Communication Group
Department of Computer Science
Mile End Road,
E1 4NS, London
United Kingdom

Phone and Email

Room 413,
Dep. of Computer Science

+44 (0) 207 889 7552
gj  (AT) dcs.qmul.ac.uk

 

Publications

  • Mills, G. J. and Healey, P.G.T. [2008] Semantic negotiation in dialogue: mechanisms of alignment. in Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Columbus, OH, US; June 2008. [PDF]
  • Mills, G. J. and Healey, P.G.T. [2008] Clarifying by alignment: the role of figure and ground. Forthcoming. LCC Brighton. [PDF]
  • Healey, P.G.T. and Mills, G.J. A Dialogue Experimentation Toolkit.[2008] Forthcoming. LCC. Brighton. [PDF]
  • Mills, G. J. [2007] Semantic co-ordination in dialogue: the role of direct interaction. PhD Thesis. [PDF]
  • Healey, P. G. T. and Mills, G. J. [2007] Interactive misalignment: miscommunication in dialogue co-ordination., In Proceedings of the 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Göteborg. Sweden [PDF]
  • Mills, G.J. and Healey, P. G. T. Clarifying Spatial Descriptions: Local and Global Effects on Semantic Co-ordination, In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Potsdam. Germany. [PDF]
  • Healey, P.G.T. and Mills, G.J. [2006] Participation, Precedence and Co-ordination in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver. Canada. [PDF]
  • Healey, P.G.T., Purver, M., King, J., Ginzburg, J. and Mills, G. J. [2003] Experimenting with Clarification in Dialogue. in Alterman, R. and Kirsh, D. (eds) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N. J.: LEA pp. 539-544. [PDF]
  • Purver, M., Healey, P. G. T., King, J. Ginzburg, J. and Mills, G. Answering Clarification Questions. In Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp 23-33, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003. [PDF]

Other

  • EPSRC “People in Systems” showcase. [2009] DiET poster [PDF]
  • Co-ordination of agents workshop [2008] Co-ordinating and contraction of joint projects
  • SigDial [2008] DiET poster [PDF]
  • Young Researchers' Roundtable on Dialogue Managers. [2008] Position Paper [PDF]
  • Talk at DynDial (Gothenburg) [2007] Patterns of semantic co-ordination
  • Talk at Dialogue Matters. [2007] DiET toolkit
  • Talk at Dialogue Matters: [2006] Semantic co-ordination in maze game .
  • Cog Sci Poster of Participation, Precedence and Co-ordination in Dialogue [2006] [PDF]

Projects

  • DiET: Dialogue Experimentation Toolkit) EPSRC project [LINK]
  • DIALOG checklist: Evaluation software for psychiatric consultations. (Priebe et al. in press, Br J Psychiatry) – is used in routine care in several services in the Netherlands and the UK (e.g. by the SHARP team in SLAM to assess clients at intake and for reviewing outcome after specific therapeutic interventions). [LINK]

Teaching/Courses

  • AMCM016: Interactive System Design
  • AMC016: Research Methods
  • AMCM025: MSc Dissertation
  • DCS334: Final year projects.

Some other pieces

  • Language evolution simulation software. Similar to Luc Steel's "Talking Heads" but incorporating Gricean resolution of clarification requests. [LINK]
  • Previous incarnation of the DiET chat tool. It includes an electronic version of Garrod et al's "maze game". It was developed for my PhD thesis [LINK]