Dialogue Actions for Natural Language Interfaces

Arne Jönsson
1995 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence  
This paper presents an action scheme for dia logue management for natural language inler faces The scheme guides a dialogue manager which directs the interface's dialogue with the user communicates with the background system, and assists the interpretation and gets eration modules The dialogue manager was designed on the basis of an investigation of empirical material collected in Wizard of Oz experiments The empirical investigations re vealed that in dialogues with database systems users
more » ... y an object, or a set of objects and ask for domain concept information, e g the value of a property of that object or set of ob|ects The interface responds 1 perform ing the appropriate action e g providing the requited information or initiating a clarified lion subdialogue The action to bt carried out by the interface can be determined based on how objects and properties are specified from information in the user utterance the dialogue context and the response from the background system and its domain model
dblp:conf/ijcai/Jonsson95 fatcat:4mavux7f7zhyjli72pg4tnodo4