@InProceedings{gilmartin-EtAl:2018:SIGdial,
  author    = {Gilmartin, Emer  and  Saam, Christian  and  Vogel, Carl  and  Campbell, Nick  and  Wade, Vincent},
  title     = {Just Talking - Modelling Casual Conversation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {51--59},
  abstract  = {Casual conversation has become a focus for artificial dialogue applications. Such talk is ubiquitous and its structure differs from that found in the task-based interactions which have been the focus of dialogue system design for many years. It is unlikely that such conversations can be modelled as an extension of task-based talk. We review theories of casual conversation, report on our studies of the structure of casual dialogue, and outline challenges we see for the development of spoken dialog systems capable of carrying on casual friendly conversation in addition to performing well-defined tasks.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-5006}
}