Recent Publications

• M. E. Foster, M. Giuliani, A. Isard, C. Matheson, J. Oberlander, and A. Knoll. Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System. In Proceedings of IJCAI-09, Pasadena, California, July 2009.
• M. E. Foster and C. Matheson (2008). Following assembly plans in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Londial 2008), London, June 2008
• M. Dzikovska, G. Campbell, C. Callaway, N. Steinhauser, E. Farrow, J. Moore, L. Butler and C. Matheson (2008). Diagnosing natural language answers to support adaptive tutoring In Proceedings of the 21st FLAIRS Conference, Miami, Florida, May 2008.
• C.B. Callaway, M.O. Dzikovska, E. Farrow, M. Marques-Pita, C. Matheson, J.D. Moore. (2007) The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems. In Proceedings of SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, September 2007
• M.O.Dzikovska, C.B. Callaway, E. Farrow, M. Marques-Pita, C. Matheson, J.D. Moore. (2007) Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques. In Proceedings of NAACL-2007 Demo Session, Rochester, NY, USA
• C. Callaway, M. Dzikovska, C. Matheson, J.D. Moore, C. Zinn. Using Dialogue to Learn Math in the LeActiveMath Project. (2006) In Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Language-enhanced Educational Technology, Riva del Garda, Italy, pages 1-8, August 2006.
• M. Nissim, C. Matheson and J. Reid (2004) Recognising Geographical Entities in Scottish Historical Documents. Proceedings of the Workshop on Geographic Information, 2004
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2003) Incremental Information State Updates in an Obligation-Driven Dialogue Model. Logic Journal of the IGPL 11(4): 485-511
• A. Isard, J. Oberlander, I. Androutsopoulos, C. Matheson, 2003. Speaking the Users' Languages, IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine 18(1), January-February 2003, pp 40-45. Special Issue Advances in Natural Language Processing.
• D. Tsovaltzi and C. Matheson (2002). Formalising Hinting in Tutorial Dialogues. In Proceedings of EDILOG, 6th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Edinburgh, 2002.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2002). From Dialogue Acts to Dialogue Act Offers: Building Discourse Structure as an Argumentative Process. In Proceedings of EDILOG, 6th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Edinburgh, 2002.
• J. Bos, C. Matheson and M.E. Foster (2002). (Eds) Proceedings of EDILOG, 6th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Edinburgh, 2002.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2001). Context-Dependent Interpretation and Implicit Dialogue Acts. In Proceedings of Bidialog, 5th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Bielefeld, 2001.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2001). Cooperation and Strategic Acting in Discussion Scenarios. In Proceedings of Workshop on Coordination and Action, ESSLLI 2001, 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Helsinki, 2001.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2000). Modelling Dialogue using Multiple Inferences over Information States. In Proceedings of ICOS-2, 2nd Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics. Dagstuhl, 2000.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2000). Information States, Obligations and Intentional Structure in Dialogue Modelling. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation. Bellagio, 2000.
• C. Matheson, M. Poesio, and D. Traum (2000). Modelling Grounding and Discourse Obligations Using Update Rules. In Proceedings of NAACL 2000, Seattle, 2000.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (2000). Obligations, Intentions, and the Notion of Conversational Games. In Proceedings of Gotalog 00, 4th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Gothenburg, 2000.
• C. Grover, C. Matheson, A. Mikheev, and M. Moens (2000). A Flexible Tokenisation Tool. In Proceedings of LREC 2000. Athens, 2000.
• J. Kreutel and C. Matheson (1999). Modelling Questions and Assertions in Dialogue Using Obligations. In Proceedings of Amstelogue 99, 3rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Amsterdam, 1999.
• M. Poesio, R. Cooper, S. Larsson, C. Matheson, and D. Traum (1999). Annotating Conversations for Information State Updates. In Proceedings of Amstelogue 99, 3rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogues. Amsterdam, 1999.

Thesis

My PhD thesis was on the syntax and semantics of partitive noun phrases in English, supervised by Ewan Klein at the Centre for Cognitive Science in Edinburgh.