INTERPRETATION AND DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE

Dynamic Interpretation and Dialogue Theory

Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation

Efficient Spoken Dialogue Domain Representation and Interpretation

We provide a detailed look on the functioning of the OwlSpeak Spoken Dialogue Manager, which is part of the EU-funded project ATRACO. OwlSpeak interprets Spoken Dialogue Ontologies and on this basis generates VoiceXML dialogue snippets. The dialogue snippets can be interpreted by all speech servers that provide VoiceXML support and therefore make the dialogue management independent from the hos...

Recognizing preliminary sentences in dialogue interpretation

In traditional plan-based dialogue interpretation systems, speech-acts are directly used for identifying the speaker's domain plans and little analysis is performed of the role of sentences in dialogue. This may lead to the activation of a large number of hypotheses on an agent's domain plans. In this paper, we describe how to interpret background sentences occurring in a dialogue by using know...

Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue

We describe an approach to dealing with interpretation errors in a tutorial dialogue system. Allowing students to provide explanations and generate contentful talk can be helpful for learning, but the language that can be understood by a computer system is limited by the current technology. Techniques for dealing with understanding problems have been developed primarily for spoken dialogue syst...