Language Engineering in Dialogue Systems

H.W.L. ter Doest; M. Moll; R. Bos; S.P. van de Burgt; A. Nijholt

Language Engineering in Dialogue Systems

H.W.L. ter Doest, M. Moll, R. Bos, S.P. van de Burgt, A. Nijholt

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The analysis of natural language in the context of keyboard-driven dialogue systems is the central issue addressed in this paper. A module that corrects typing errors, performs domain-specific morphological analysis is developed. A parser for typed unification grammars has been designed and implemented in C++; for description of the lexicon and the grammar a suitable specification language has been developed. It is argued that typed unification grammars and especially the newly developed specification language are convenient formalisms for describing natural language use in dialogue systems. Finally we present a dialogue manager that is based on a finite state automaton; transitions in the automaton depend upon availability of information in utterances of the user. In order to keep track of the history of the dialogue, a context stack is constructed during the dialogue. The manager is implemented in Prolog.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Energy week conference and exhibition
Subtitle of host publication	Computers in Engineering Symposium, Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces
Place of Publication	Houston, TX, USA
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Pages	68-79
Number of pages	12
Volume	I, Book VI
ISBN (Print)	9780964873186
Publication status	Published - Feb 1996
Event	Computers in Engineering Symposium. Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces - Houston, Texas Duration: 29 Jan 1996 → 2 Feb 1996

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Conference	Computers in Engineering Symposium. Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces
Period	29/01/96 → 2/02/96
Other	29 Jan - 02 Feb, 1996

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HMI-MI: MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS

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Language Engineering in Dialogue Systems
ter Doest, H., Moll, M., Bos, R., van de Burgt, S. & Nijholt, A., 1996, Enschede: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science. 20 p. (Memoranda informatica; no. 96-02)
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ter Doest, HWL, Moll, M, Bos, R, van de Burgt, SP & Nijholt, A 1996, Language Engineering in Dialogue Systems. in Energy week conference and exhibition: Computers in Engineering Symposium, Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces. vol. I, Book VI, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Houston, TX, USA, pp. 68-79, Computers in Engineering Symposium. Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces, 29/01/96.

Language Engineering in Dialogue Systems. / ter Doest, H.W.L.; Moll, M.; Bos, R. et al.

Energy week conference and exhibition: Computers in Engineering Symposium, Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces. Vol. I, Book VI Houston, TX, USA : American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996. p. 68-79.

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