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An xpath-based discourse analysis module for spoken dialogue systems

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Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio,

Charles LewisAuthors Info & Claims

WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 408 - 409

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013499

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

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This paper describes an XPath-based discourse analysis module for Spoken Dialogue Systems that allows the dialogue author to easily manipulate and query both the user input's semantic representation and the dialogue context using a simple and compact formalism. We show that, in managing the human-machine interaction, the discourse context and the dialogue history are effectively represented as Document Object Model (DOM) structures. DOM defines interfaces that dialogue scripts can use to dynamically access and update the content, the structure and the style of the documents. In general, this approach applies also to richer multimedia and multimodal interactions where the interpretation of the user input depends on a combination of input modalitie.

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Lewis CDi Fabbrizio G(2005)A Clarification Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue SystemsProceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005.10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415044(37-40)Online publication date: 2005
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415044

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An xpath-based discourse analysis module for spoken dialogue systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Speech recognition
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Natural language interfaces

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

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DOI:10.1145/1013367

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Lewis CDi Fabbrizio G(2005)A Clarification Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue SystemsProceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005.10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415044(37-40)Online publication date: 2005
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