CLARIE: Handling clarification requests in a dialogue system

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 259-288

  Purver, Matthew ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clarification requests; Contextual dependence; Grounding; Information state based dialogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748769017     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9006-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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