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The approach to knowledge representation taken in the multimodal, multidomain, and multiscenario dialogue system — SmartKom — is presented. We focus on the ontological and representational issues and choices helping to construct an ontology, which is shared by multiple components of the system and can be reused in different projects and applied to various tasks. Finally, two applications of the ontology that highlight the usefulness of our approach are described.
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Gurevych, I., Porzel, R., Malaka, R. (2006). Modeling Domain Knowledge: Know-How and Know-What. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36678-4_5
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