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Distributing representation for robust interpretation of dialogue utterances

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ACL '00: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 133 - 141

https://doi.org/10.3115/1075218.1075236

Published: 03 October 2000 Publication History

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A syntax tree or standard semantic representation can be represented as a set of indexed constraints. This paper describes how this idea can be used in task oriented dialogue systems to provide interpretation rules which incorporate structural and contextual constraints where available, and degrade gracefully on ungrammatical input.

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