A constraint-based approach for cooperative information-seeking dialogue

Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Qu, Yan ^a   Green, Nancy ^b  

^a Clairvoyance Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONSTRAINT-BASED; DIALOGUE GENERATIONS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION REQUEST; INFORMATION-SEEKING DIALOGUES; MIXED-INITIATIVE; OVER-CONSTRAINED; PROBLEM SOLVERS; QUERY CONSTRUCTION; UNDER-CONSTRAINED;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57649116712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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