Title
An information-based approach for guiding multi-modal human-computer-interaction
Abstract
Much work has been done in dialogue modeling for spoken and multi-modal humancomputer interaction. Problems can arise in situations that do not correspond to the dialogue model. For this reason, we propose information-centered dialogue processing in which the actions to be taken by the dialogue system are determined as a function of the information available in the discourse, the database and the domain model. In order to arrive at fully specified representations of the intended actions, the specificity of the representations is increased by unification, integrating information from multi-modal input, database access and domain knowledge. Our approach differs from other state-of-the-art systems in that it does not rely on explicit dialogue models. Instead, we show how partial and underspecified representations of the situation can be used in a spoken dialogue system to generate clarification questions and to guide the user to arrive at his or her communicative goal. We show furthermore how probabilistic information can be used to disambiguate without clarification questions. Evaluation results and dialogue examples demonstrate the flexibility and naturalness of our approach.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1997
IJCAI (2)
multi-modal human-computer-interaction,information-centered dialogue processing,dialogue modeling,database access,dialogue model,explicit dialogue model,dialogue system,domain knowledge,information-based approach,probabilistic information,dialogue example,clarification question,domain model,human computer interaction
Field
DocType
ISSN
Database access,Domain knowledge,Computer science,Unification,Naturalness,Human–computer interaction,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Domain model,Modal
Conference
1045-0823
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-555860-480-4
2
0.41
References 
Authors
3
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Denecke117724.32