Probabilistic ontology trees for belief tracking in dialog systems

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 37-46

  Mehta, Neville ^a   Gupta, Rakesh ^b   Raux, Antoine ^b   Ramachandran, Deepak ^b   Krawczyk, Stefan ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Honda R&D Americas Inc   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIALOG SYSTEMS; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; MOST PROBABLE EXPLANATION; PROBABILISTIC EXTENSION; PROBABILISTIC ONTOLOGIES; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; TOURISM INFORMATION SYSTEM; USER INTENTION; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; FRAME-BASED; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; USER'S INTENTIONS;

INFERENCE ENGINES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84857745107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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