This paper presents a human-machine dialogue model in the field of task-oriented dialogues. The originality of this model resides in the clear separation of dialogue knowledge from task knowledge in order to facilitate for the modeling of dialogue strategies and the maintenance of dialogue coherence. These two aspects are crucial in the field of oral dialogues with a machine considering the cur...

I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

This paper describes the component in the SUNDIAL spoken dialogue system responsible for semantic interpretation of user input. This component, thèbelief mod-ule', constructs interpretations using several sources of knowledge, including static knowledge deenitions and a dynamic model of dialogue context, and addresses the problem of the hypothetical nature of the recognition and parsing results...

RÉSUMÉ. Dans le présent papier, nous proposons un gestionnaire de dialogue oral arabe Homme-machine. Ce travail entre dans le cadre de la réalisation du serveur vocal interactif SARF (Bahou et al., 2008) qui offre des renseignements sur le transport ferroviaire tunisien en langue arabe standard moderne. Le gestionnaire de dialogue, que nous proposons, se base sur une approche structurelle et ut...

It used to be that what parents understood about a pediatrician was based on face-to-face interactions and dialogue within a close personal network. Our communication was limited to the dialogue that happened in an examination room or the controlled sharing that happened in peer-to-peer journals. Our identity was defined by how we came across when we were in front of parents. This paradigm defi...

This study investigated EFL teachers’ and students’ perspectives towards Audiotaped Oral Dialogue Journals (ATODJs), as a computer-mediated communication (CMC) and a Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) task. The data came from 202 entries of ATODJs, gathered from15 female Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Teachers and students’ evaluations of the whole program comprised of the qualitative...

Introduction. This investigation opens with a description of why studying nontraditional, oral documents can inform efforts to extend traditional library and information science practices, of description, storage, and retrieval, to artefacts made available through emerging media. Method. This study extends the method used to identify a document, by determining whether an artefact incorporates o...