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Interpretations and Discourse Obligations in a Dialog System

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 2721))

Abstract

Not all user intentions can be extracted from the speech acts associated with an user utterance. Extra reasoning may be needed to interpret what the user said. We describe how interpretations can be generated using (i) the knowledge associated with each domain object; and (ii) the system’s expectations. We also present a way of connecting interpretations to discourse obligations, from where system decisions are taken.

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  1. L2F — Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID Lisboa / IST, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Márcio Mourão, Pedro Madeira & Nuno J. Mamede

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  1. Márcio Mourão
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  1. L2F, INESC-ID Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede  & Isabel Trancoso  & 

  2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  3. NILC, ICMC-USP São-Carlos, Av. do Trabalhador São-Carlense, 400, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Mourão, M., Madeira, P., Mamede, N.J. (2003). Interpretations and Discourse Obligations in a Dialog System. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_31

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