A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Jackendoff (2002) posed four challenges that linguistic combinatoriality and rules of language present to theories of brain function. The essence of these problems is the question...
This paper discusses the association of emotions as an underlying component of everyday human-computer interaction. It presents the ongoing work in the design of an experiment to ...
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
We present a logic programming based dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to the heterogeneous external relational databases of the Évora University. The p...
Salvador Abreu, Paulo Quaresma, Luis Quintano, Ire...