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Contextual coherence in natural language processing

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Iryna GurevychAuthors Info & Claims

CONTEXT'03: Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context

Pages 272 - 285

Published: 23 June 2003 Publication History

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Controlled and restricted dialogue systems are reliable enough to be deployed in various real world applications. The more conversational a dialogue system becomes, the more difficult and unreliable become recognition and processing. Numerous research projects are struggling to overcome the problems arising with more- or truly conversational dialogue system. We introduce a set of contextual coherence measurements that can improve the reliability of spoken dialogue systems, by including contextual knowledge at various stages in the natural language processing pipeline. We show that, situational knowledge can be successfully employed to resolve pragmatic ambiguities and that it can be coupled with ontological knowledge to resolve semantic ambiguities and to choose among competing automatic speech recognition hypotheses.

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Everitt KHarada SBilmes JLanday JMase KMassaro DTakeda KRoy DPotamianos A(2007)Disambiguating speech commands using physical contextProceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces10.1145/1322192.1322235(247-254)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1322192.1322235
Oberle DAnkolekar AHitzler PCimiano PSintek MKiesel MMougouie BBaumann SVembu SRomanelli MBuitelaar PEngel RSonntag DReithinger NLoos BZorn HMicelli VPorzel RSchmidt CWeiten MBurkhardt FZhou J(2007)DOLCE ergo SUMOWeb Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web10.1016/j.websem.2007.06.0025:3(156-174)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.websem.2007.06.002
Leong LKobayashi SKoshizuka NSakamura KSt. Amant RRiedl JJameson A(2005)CASISProceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/1040830.1040880(231-238)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.1040880

Index Terms

Contextual coherence in natural language processing
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
2. Hardware
  1. Power and energy
    1. Power estimation and optimization
      1. Platform power issues

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CONTEXT'03: Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context

June 2003

525 pages

ISBN:3540403809

Editors:
Patrick Blackburn
INRIA Lorraine, Villers les Nancy Cedex, France
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Chiara Ghidini
University of Liverpool, Department of Computer Science, Liverpool, UK
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Roy M. Turner
University of Maine, Department of Computer Science, Orono, ME
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Fausto Giunchiglia
University of Trento, Department of Information and Communication Technology, Povo, Trento, Italy

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University of Trento
The Linguistics Department of Stanford University
he Philosophy Department of Stanford University

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Everitt KHarada SBilmes JLanday JMase KMassaro DTakeda KRoy DPotamianos A(2007)Disambiguating speech commands using physical contextProceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces10.1145/1322192.1322235(247-254)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1322192.1322235
Oberle DAnkolekar AHitzler PCimiano PSintek MKiesel MMougouie BBaumann SVembu SRomanelli MBuitelaar PEngel RSonntag DReithinger NLoos BZorn HMicelli VPorzel RSchmidt CWeiten MBurkhardt FZhou J(2007)DOLCE ergo SUMOWeb Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web10.1016/j.websem.2007.06.0025:3(156-174)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.websem.2007.06.002
Leong LKobayashi SKoshizuka NSakamura KSt. Amant RRiedl JJameson A(2005)CASISProceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/1040830.1040880(231-238)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.1040880

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