Beschreibung:
This volume provides a logic-based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. The text describes late-breaking research on next-generation spoken dialogue systems and investigates how to improve them.
Reasoning for Information: Seeking and Planning Dialogues provides a logic-based reasoning component for spoken language dialogue systems. This component, called Problem Assistant is responsible for processing constraints on a possible solution obtained from various sources, namely user and the system's domain-specific information. The authors also present findings on the implementation of a dialogue management interface to the Problem Assistant. The dialogue system supports simple mixed-initiative planning interactions in the TRAINS domain, which is still a relatively complex domain involving a number of logical constraints and relations forming the basis for the collaborative problem-solving behavior that drives the dialogue.
1: Introduction.- 2: Fundamentals of Dialogue Systems.- 3: First‐Order Logic.- 4: Logic‐Based Domain Modelling.- 5: Interactive Model Generation.- 6: A Prototype Based on VoiceXML.- 7: Information State‐Based Dialogue Management.- 8: Revised Prototype and System Architecture.- 9: Conclusions and Future Directions