Introduction to interactive discourse processing from the perspective of plan recognition and text planning

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-311

  Haller, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

INTERACTIVE DISCOURSE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION; PLAN RECOGNITION; TASK ORIENTED DIALOGUES; TEXT PLANNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0033355091     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006517107757     Document Type: Article

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