Towards a new generation of conversational agents based on sentence similarity

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 39 LNEE, Issue , 2009, Pages 505-514

  O'Shea, Karen ^a   Bandar, Zuhair ^b   Crockett, Keeley ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conversational Agent; Sentence Similarity; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PATTERN-MATCHING TECHNIQUE; SENTENCE SIMILARITY; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; USER INPUT; WORD MEANING;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

EID: 77950646420     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2311-7_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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