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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Academic Paper


Title: Interactive question answering and constraint relaxation in spoken dialogue systems
Author: S. Varges
Institution: Università degli Studi di Trento
Author: F. Weng
Institution: Bosch Research and Technology Center
Author: H. Pon-Barry
Institution: Harvard University
Linguistic Field: General Linguistics
Abstract: We explore the relationship between question answering and constraint relaxation in spoken dialogue systems and develop dialogue strategies for selecting and presenting information succinctly. In particular, we describe methods for dealing with the results of database queries in information-seeking dialogues. Our goal is to structure the dialogue in such a way that the user is neither overwhelmed with information nor left uncertain as to how to refine the query further. We present two sets of evaluation results for a restaurant selection task: one is a system performance evaluation experiment involving twenty subjects, the other is an experimental evaluation of the use of suggestions involving sixteen subjects.

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This article appears in Natural Language Engineering Vol. 15, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST .



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