Natural Language Interfaces that facilitate data exploration tasks are rapidly gaining in
interest in the research community because they enable users to focus their attention on the …

Natural Language Interfaces and Voice User Interfaces for expressing data visualizations
face ambiguities, such as, speech disfluency, under-specification, and abbreviations. In this …

Data visualization is an important aspect of exploratory data analysis which requires
expertise, posing a challenge to many users. In this work, we present a conversational …

Intuitive interaction with visual models becomes an increasingly important task in the field of
Visualization (VIS) and verbal interaction represents a significant aspect of it. Vice versa …

Our goal is to develop an intelligent assistant to support users explore data via
visualizations. We have collected a new corpus of conversations, CHICAGO-CRIME-VIS …

In the context of data visualization, as in other grounded settings, referents are created by
the task the agents engage in and are salient because they belong to the shared physical …

Human–machine communications (HMC) scholars are at the centre of an age-old debate
about truth and sense making about the communicative modalities between humans and …

Data exploration stands to benefit from environments that permit users to examine and
juxtapose many views of data, particularly views that present diverse selections of data …

Digital assistants are becoming more frequently used in our daily lives. We use Alexa to turn
off the lights, Siri to play music, and Cortana to check the weather. These systems allow …