ITRI-99-11 Dialogue as Knowledge Editing

ITRI-03-13 CROCODIAL: Crosslingual Computer-mediated Dialogue

We describe a novel approach to crosslingual dialogue which allows for highly accurate communication of semantically complex content. The approach is introduced through an application in a B2B scenario. We are currently building a browser-based prototype for this scenario. The core technology underlying the approach is natural language generation. We also discuss how the proposed approach can c...

ITRI-99-06 Editing logically complex discourse meanings

WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Meant) is a new methodology for editing knowledge representations by interacting with a generated NL feedback text which presents both the knowledge already defined and the options for extending and modifying it. This paper concerns novel problems that arise when this methodology is extended to deal with certain familiar and supposedly well-understood semantic ...

ITRI-02-11 Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies

Editing Speech Acts: A Practical Approach to Human-Machine Dialogue

This paper introduces a new approach to dialogue. This approach is based on the idea that dialogue can be seen as a form of two-person knowledge base editing. In a dialogue, it is the dialogue history which is being edited. We propose some constraints on editing dialogue histories which distinguish dialogue from knowledge base editing in general. We claim that our proposal yields both interesti...

ITRI-00-11 A Formal Semantics for Generating and Editing Plurals

We present a formal semantics for an objectoriented formalism which allows for the representation of plural objects (such as ‘Three N’, ‘Most of the N’, ‘Some N’,...). The semantics is given in terms of a mapping to a variant of Discourse Representation Theory. It is motivated by its suitability for natural language generation and interactive editing of the representations.