Robust Interaction through Partial Interpretation and Dialogue Management

In this paper we present results on developing robust natural language interfaces by combining shallowand partialinterpretationwith dialoguemanagement. The key issue is to reduce the e ort needed to adapt the knowledge sources for parsing and interpretation to a necessary minimum. In the paper we identifydi erent types of informationand present corresponding computational models. The approach utilizes an automatically generated lexicon which is updated with information from a corpus of simulated dialogues. The grammar is developed manually from the same knowledge sources. We also present results from evaluations that support the approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Arne Jönsson, Lena Strömbäck
• Keywords: ACL 1998, ACL 2007, Knowledge Sources, Robust Natural Language, Shallowand Partialinterpretationwith Dialoguemanagement