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Peter A. Heeman

Peter A. Heeman has 5 papers in our library, in 1995–2004, most of them on Discourse analysis, Dialogue systems, English; often with James F. Allen, Graeme Hirst.

5 papers in our library · 1995–2004

OpenAlex · h-index 24 · 128 works · 2,430 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 5 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 37 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5610

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 Affiliations

🎓Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland · United States1998–2016 · 31 papers🎓University of RochesterRochester · United States1993–2002 · 15 papers🎓University of GenevaGeneva · Switzerland1996–2002 · 3 papers🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada1991–1994 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 7The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 5 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 5 worksComputer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksSignal Processing · 1 workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

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

 Works by year

2000s

20041 paper

1990s

19991 paper19981 paper19971 paper19951 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Collaborating on Referring Expressions (1995 · 130 citations)
    Heeman and Hirst study what happens when a hearer cannot identify the object a speaker is describing and the two must work together to fix the reference.
  2. Intonational Boundaries, Speech Repairs, and Discourse Markers: Modeling Spoken Dialog (1997 · 39 citations)
    Spoken dialog is hard for understanding systems because a speaker's turn must first be split into intonational phrases, cleared of speech repairs (stretches the speaker retracts or repeats), and checked for discourse markers such as "well" or "okay".
  3. Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog (1998 · 33 citations)
    In task-oriented spoken dialog, words like "so", "well", "and" or "now" often mark how an upcoming utterance connects to prior talk, yet dialog systems usually discard them as noise.
  4. The American English SALA-II Data Collection (2004 · 4 citations)
    This paper reports how OHSU's Center for Spoken Language Understanding built the American English part of SALA-II.
  5. Speech repains, intonational phrases, and discourse markers: modeling speakers' utterances in spoken dialogue (1999 · 3 citations)
    Heeman and Allen address a basic problem for spoken dialogue systems: working out what the speaker actually meant to say.

 Co-authors here

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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 37 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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