rapaport@sunybcs (William J. Rapaport) (02/23/88)
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
COLLOQUIUM
The Architecture of Discourse Systems
Dr. James Allen
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
A system that can understand and partake in an extended
dialog must be comprised of many diverse processing mechan-
isms: syntactic and semantic analysis, reference analysis,
speech act analysis, the recognition of the other speakers
plans and goals, the identification of topic structure, and
much more to do with generating appropriate responses. While
there has been alot of work in the last decade on each of
these problems, there has been very little work concerned
with how each process can be integrated into a complete sys-
tem. In this talk I will summarize some of work done in the
areas of reference, speech act analysis, plan recognition
and discourse structure and then suggest how this work might
be integrated into a complete system capable of participat-
ing in an extended two-person dialog. This framework is
currently being tested in an exploratory system under
development at Rochester.
Date: Tuesday, 1st March, 1988
Time: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Place: Bell 337, Amherst Campus
Danish and Coffee will be served at 4:30 pm at Bell 224.