A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems

D.H. Lie; J. Hulstijn; R. op den Akker; A. Nijholt

A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems

D.H. Lie, J. Hulstijn, R. op den Akker, A. Nijholt

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Natural language understanding in dialogue systems is taken to consist of two subsequent processes: rewrite and understand. The rewriting proces is a transformational proces in which natural language utterances are mapped via a sequence of context-sensitive string to string transformations onto some semantic normal form. In the understand proces an interpretation of the semantic form is made, with respect to a particular dialogue state. The rewrite proces is completely independent of the state of the dialogue. The transformational approach presented is compared with more traditional grammatical and parsing approaches. The approach is used in a first prototype of a natural language interface for a theatre information and booking system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications (NLP-IA 1998)
Editors	C. Moghrabi
Place of Publication	Moncton, Canada
Pages	163-168
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - Aug 1998
Event	2nd Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications NLP-IA 1998 - Moncton, Canada Duration: 18 Aug 1998 → 21 Aug 1998 Conference number: 2

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Conference	2nd Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications NLP-IA 1998
Abbreviated title	NLP-IA
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Moncton
Period	18/08/98 → 21/08/98

Keywords

HMI-MI: MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS
Dialogue systems
Robust parsing
Software engineering

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Lie, DH, Hulstijn, J, op den Akker, R & Nijholt, A 1998, A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems. in C Moghrabi (ed.), Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications (NLP-IA 1998). Moncton, Canada, pp. 163-168, 2nd Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications NLP-IA 1998, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 18/08/98.

A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems. / Lie, D.H.; Hulstijn, J.; op den Akker, R. et al.
Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications (NLP-IA 1998). ed. / C. Moghrabi. Moncton, Canada, 1998. p. 163-168.

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