Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
With traditional Question Answering (QA) systems having reached nearly satisfactory performance, an emerging challenge is the development of successful Interactive Question Answeri...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi, Marco Baroni...
Spoken dialogue systems can be considered knowledge-based systems designed to interact with users using speech in order to provide information or carry out simple tasks. Current s...
Domain shift is a challenging issue in dialogue management. This paper shows how to extract domain knowledge for dialogue model adaptation. The basic semantic concepts are derived ...
The efficacy of expert systems often depends on the accuracy and completeness of the problem specification negotiated with the user. Therefore, efficient user interfaces are needed...