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Diane Litman

Diane Litman has 4 papers in our library, in 1993–2016, most of them on Dialogue systems, Discourse analysis, English; often with David Vandyke, Julia Hirschberg, Marilyn Walker.

4 papers in our library · 1993–2016

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 56 · 338 works · 10,254 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 302 times in our library · 6 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1727

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 Affiliations

🎓University of PittsburghPittsburgh · United States2002–2026 · 226 paperscurrent🏢AT&TBedminster · United States1986–2002 · 50 papers🤝RAND CorporationSanta Monica · United States2025 · 2 papers🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States1992 · 2 papers🎓University of RochesterRochester · United States1984 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 4 worksArts and Humanities · 4 worksComputer Science · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Dialogue systems · 2 worksDiscourse analysis · 1 workEnglish · 1 work

 Works by year

2010s

20161 paperTowards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English

1990s

19972 papersDiane Litman's papers of 199719931 paperEmpirical Studies on the Disambiguation of Cue Phrases

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents (1997 · 660 citations)
    Comparing spoken dialogue agents is difficult. Reference-answer evaluation is tied to one particular dialogue strategy. Metrics such as transaction success or dialogue length cannot say which factor matters more, and they do not carry over to other tasks. Walker et al. propose PARADISE, a decision-theoretic framework…
  2. Empirical Studies on the Disambiguation of Cue Phrases (1993 · 430 citations)
    Hirschberg and Litman study how listeners and readers tell apart the two roles of cue phrases such as now , well , say or incidentally.
  3. Discourse Segmentation by Human and Automated Means (1997 · 275 citations)
    Discourse research widely assumes that multi-utterance units (discourse segments) interact with linguistic form, yet there is little agreement on what such segments are or how to identify them.
  4. Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English (2016 · 26 citations)
    Human-run English speaking exams usually include a live conversation with an examiner, but automated scoring has so far handled only monologue tasks, such as answering a prompt.

All works

10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue AgentsMarilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm, et al.Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 660 citations
  2. Empirical Studies on the Disambiguation of Cue PhrasesJulia Hirschberg, Diane LitmanComputational Linguistics · 430 citations
  3. Discourse Segmentation by Human and Automated MeansRebecca J. Passonneau, Diane J. LitmanComputational Linguistics · 275 citations
  4. Towards Argument-Aware Abstractive Summarization of Long Legal Opinions with Summary Reranking · original ↗ · no summary yet · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023Mohamed Elaraby, Yang Zhong, Diane Litman2023 · 27 citations
  5. Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of EnglishDiane Litman, Steve Young, Mark Gales, et al.Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) · 26 citations
  6. ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational LinguisticsMohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman2022 · 23 citations
  7. Computing and Exploiting Document Structure to Improve Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Decisions · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022Yang Zhong, Diane Litman2022 · 17 citations
  8. Discourse-Driven Evaluation: Unveiling Factual Inconsistency in Long Document Summarization · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of…Yang Zhong, Diane Litman2025 · 8 citations
  9. Adding Argumentation into Human Evaluation of Long Document Abstractive Summarization: A Case Study on Legal Opinions · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval)…Mohamed Elaraby et al.2024 · 7 citations
  10. STRONG – Structure Controllable Legal Opinion Summary Generation · original ↗ · no summary yet · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2023…Yang Zhong, Diane Litman2023 · 5 citations

 Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 302 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 30 citing papers with a page here →.

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