Alex Voorhoeve sets the stage for his book by quoting Plato's Phaedrus in which the “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows” (1) is deemed superior to the written discourse. Socrates's vindication of the dialogue as the blessed form of philosophical investigation is thus presented as the inspiration for these eleven conversations with prominent thinkers on ethics ― most of them pr...

This paper presents a semantic parser for spoken dialogue systems. The parser is designed especially for the analysis of free word order languages by providing a feature called orderindependent matching. We describe how this feature allows writing of rules for free word order languages in an elegant way (using German as example language) and how it increases the robustness against speech recogn...

QACIAD (Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogue) is an evaluation framework for measuring interactive question answering (QA) technologies. It assumes that users interactively collect information using a QA system for writing a report on a given topic and evaluates, among other things, the capabilities needed under such circumstances. This paper reports an experiment for ex...

This paper presents a semantic parser for spoken dialogue systems. The parser is designed especially for the analysis of free word order languages by providing a feature called orderindependent matching. We describe how this feature allows writing of rules for free word order languages in an elegant way (using German as example language) and how it increases the robustness against speech recogn...

The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper provides commentaries on landmark papers from the decade that journal. topics discussed include reasoning with cases, argumentation, normative reasoning, dialogue, representing legal knowledge neural networks.

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