Robust parsing and spoken negotiative dialogue with databases

This paper presents a robust parsing algorithm and semantic formalism for the interpretation of utterances in spoken negotiative dialogue with databases. The algorithm works in two passes: a domain-specific pattern-matching phase and a domain-independent semantic analysis phase. Robustness is achieved by limiting the set of representable utterance types to an empirically motivated subclass which is more expressive than propositional slot

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: NLE
• Authors: Johan Boye, Mats Wirén
• Keywords: Domain-specific Pattern-matching Phase, NLE 2008, Parsing Algorithm, Robust Parsing Algorithm