Specification for semantic dictionary integration

One of the goals of the HOMEY project is to develop a technology to be used for deploying innovative tele-medicine services. These new services will be based on an Intelligent Dialog System (IDS), designed and developed to effectively manage an incremental dialog between a tele-medicine system and a patient, taking into account user needs, preferences and time course of her/his disease. The purpose of work package 5 of HOMEY is to provide the required medico-linguistic domain knowledge for the various scenario's in which the dialogue system will be used. Exploitation of this knowledge will be realised by integrating Language & Computing nv's (L&C). existing OntologyBrowser (OB) into the IDS such that it manages at runtime semantic dictionary look-ups as a service to the dialogue manager. This deliverable describes the requirements put forward by the future users of the Homey system at the one hand, and the developers of the dialogue manager and dialogue specification engine at the other hand, that the semantic dictionairy module should adhere to. This deliverable is not the end-result of WP5. Rather it describes how the end-result will look like in the future.