In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
Qualitative variables take symbolic values, such as hot, shoe, Europe or France. Sometimes, the values may be arranged in layers or levels of detail. For instance, the variable pla...
In this paper we present a plug and play dialogue system for smart environments. The environment description and its state are stored on a domain ontology. This ontology is formed ...
Domain shift is a challenging issue in dialogue management. This paper shows how to extract domain knowledge for dialogue model adaptation. The basic semantic concepts are derived ...
: Syntactic disambiguation frequently requires knowledge of the semantic categories of nouns, especially in languages with free word order. For example, in Spanish the phrases pint...