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Artificial Life for Natural Language Processing

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2005)

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A framework for natural language processing based on an artificial life model is introduced. Human-computer interfaces require models of dialogue structure that capture the variability and unpredictability within dialogue. In this paper, taking as starting point the notion of eco-grammar system, and by extending it to the concept of Conversational Grammar Systems (CGS), we introduce a new formal framework for conversation modelling.

This research has been supported by a Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant (ERG) under contract number MERG-CT-2004-510644.

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  1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1, 43005, Tarragona, Spain

    Gemma Bel-Enguix & M. Dolores Jiménez-López

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  1. Gemma Bel-Enguix
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  1. Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Mathieu S. Capcarrère

  2. Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Alex A. Freitas

  3. Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

    Peter J. Bentley

  4. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  5. Department of Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

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Bel-Enguix, G., Jiménez-López, M.D. (2005). Artificial Life for Natural Language Processing. In: Capcarrère, M.S., Freitas, A.A., Bentley, P.J., Johnson, C.G., Timmis, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_77

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