Title :
Question analysis and explanation generation
Author :
Sarantinos, Efstratios ; Johnson, Peter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London Univ., UK
Abstract :
Presents an empirical study and analysis of natural dialogues between experts, novices and partial experts. From this analysis a theory of explanation dialogues is developed known as Extended Schema based Theory (EST). In EST questions are interpreted by combining information from different, semantically related question types which together best capture the essence and meaning of the question. EST is then applied to the design end implementation of an explanation generator, called EXPLAIN
Keywords :
explanation; knowledge based systems; knowledge representation; EST; EXPLAIN; Extended Schema based Theory; explanation generator; knowledge based systems; knowledge representation; natural dialogues; theory of explanation dialogues; Audio recording; Audio tapes; Computational modeling; Computer science; Data analysis; Educational institutions; History; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories; Skin;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1991.183961
