clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) (12/23/88)
AI SEMINAR - Thursday, January 12, 11 a.m. in Room SF 1105 (SF = Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Road) Ronan Reilly Educational Research Centre St. Patrick's College, Dublin "Building a naturalistic natural-language dialogue interface" In this talk I will give an overview of the CFID project, describing its underlying philosophy, and how this has motivated various implementation decisions. An important emphasis of the project has been on a corpus-based approach to grammar development. The initial stages of the project have involved the gathering of human dialogues in a simulated database-query en- vironment. In these studies we were particularly interested in discovering the extent and nature of miscommunication in keyboard dialogue, and in how participants detect and recover from various types of miscommunication. I will discuss our findings in this regard. I will also discuss the grammar development and knowledge repesentation tools that have evolved to meet the particular needs of the project. -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 BITNET,CSNET: clarke@csri.toronto.edu CDNNET: clarke@csri.toronto.cdn UUCP: {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke