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.
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Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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