(48) Experimental Dialogue System with Pragmatics-based Utterance Selection Mechanism

	Machine:     PSI
	Environment: SIMPOS
	Language:    ESP
	Source Code: 1.0 MB
	Documents:   Manual (English/Japanese)

Overview

This system is directed to the research on the criteria required for dialogue systems to satisfy in order to communicate with its users successfully and cooperatively.

Configuration

Function

This system generates response utterances to support achievement of user's goal by selecting contents of utterance, depending on topics that vary as dialogue proceeds, user's knowledge, and other pragmatic constraints.

Features

The system deals with generation of response as planning to achieve user's goal.
The system selects from possible variations of utterance, the most suitable one for the given situation, using the criteria that is represented as estimation functions.
In generating an explanatory multi-sentential text as a response, the system determines the text structure using estimation functions.
By planning utterances refering the model of user, the system can generate responses that correct user's misconceptions.

FTP

Experimental Dialogue System with Pragmatics-based Utterance Selection Mechanism [550K]

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