Method of topic processing for cooperative dialog systems

Author

Furukawa, Hiroshi ; Harada, Naoki ; Yamada, Koichi ; Nukuzuma, Akira ; Ishimaru, Keiichi

Author_Institution

Lab. for Int. Fuzzy Eng. Res., Yokohama, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

20-24 Mar 1995

Firstpage

843

Abstract

Discourse information such as context and topics must be tracked in order to achieve cooperative interaction in a decision support system with natural language interfaces. This paper presents a method for processing topics, one aspects of the context, in goal-oriented dialogs. In our method, topics are recognized by matching in a fuzzy thesaurus and tracked by using a topic stack. Results of application to an information consultation system show our method can effectively recognize topics from surface expressions

Keywords

cooperative systems; decision support systems; fuzzy systems; interactive systems; natural language interfaces; cooperative dialog systems; decision support system; fuzzy thesaurus matching; goal-oriented dialogs; information consultation system; natural language interfaces; topic processing; Context modeling; Decision support systems; Delta modulation; Humans; Information processing; Laboratories; Natural languages; Roentgenium; Surface treatment; Thesauri;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems, 1995. International Joint Conference of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and The Second International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium., Proceedings of 1995 IEEE Int

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2461-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.1995.409781

Filename

409781