A computational architecture for conversation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 407, Issue , 1999, Pages 201-210

  Horvitz, Eric ^a   Paek, Tim ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL PROCEDURES; CONVERSATION SYSTEMS; EXPECTED UTILITY; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUESTION-ASKING; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84943606042     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-2490-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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