... chunks, andalso shows how discourse chunking canbe used to improve performance for a dialogueact tagger that uses a case-basedreasoning approach.1 Dialogueacttagging A dialogueact (hereafter ... DA) is an encapsulationof the speakerÕs intentions indialogue what thespeaker is trying to accomplish by saying some-thing. In DA tagging (similar to part-of-speech tagging) , utterances in ... utterances inadialogue are tagged withthe most appropriate speech act from a tagset. DA tagging has application in NLP work, includingspeech recognition and language understanding.The Verbmobil-2...
... statistical approach formodelling and detecting dialogue acts in Instant Messaging dialogue. This in- volved the collection of a small set oftask-based dialogues and annotating themwith a ... MelbourneVictoria 3010, Australiaedwardi@csse.unimelb.edu.auAbstractInstant Messaging chat sessions are real-time text-based conversations which canbe analyzed using dialogue- act models.We describe a ... utteranceseach message contained. Labelling in this fashionhad the effect of also segmenting messages into ut-terances based on the dialogueact boundaries.2.2 Synchronising Messages in IM Dialogue The...
... system for the dialogueacttagging task. Introduction Although machine learning approaches have achieved success in many areas of Natural Lan- guage Processing, researchers have only recently ... dialogue acts is a challenging task, be- cause often adialogueact cannot be directly inferred from a literal interpretation of an ut- terance. We have investigated applying Transforma- tion-Based ... dialogue acts. In many cases, an undesirable dialogue act cue contains a useful dialogueact cue as a substring, so it should be relatively easy to eliminate. Examples of these superstring...
... language under-standing (SLU) module converts Wtto an abstractrepresentation of the user’s dialogueact (DA). The dialogue management (DM) module determines theuser’s dialogueact A ∗tand ... an example of dialogue controlling model ofan SDS. In this example, each state represents a DA. A dialogue begins with the greeting state and endswith the ending state. During a session, a user ... andInformation EngineeringNational Cheng Kung UniversityTainan, Taiwan1liangnet@gmail.com2chunghsienwu@gmail.comChia-Ping ChenDepartment of Computer Scienceand EngineeringNational Sun...
... CP-pyk(5¢-ACGACTAGTGGATCCATNNNNNAGTTTATTCTTGACANNNNNNNNNNNNNNTGRTATAATNNNNAAGTAATAAAATATTCGGAGGAATTTTGAAATGAATAAACGTGTAAAAATCG-3¢)(N¼ A, T, G, C) and pyk-back (5¢-CTCTACATGCATTTCAACAATAGGGCCTGTC-3¢) for amplification of pyk. The resulting PCR prod-ucts, ... (5¢-GGAAGGATCCTTGTGTTTTTCTCCTATAATG-3¢) anddownstream to pyk using primer pyk3 (5¢-GGAAGGATCCTTTGTCAATTAATGATCTTAAAAC-3¢) and pyk4(5¢-CTAGTCTAGATGAGCTCCAGAAGCTTCC-3¢) wereamplified. The PCR products ... 25% increased PK activity. We then inserted theleader mRNA from the L. lactis ald gene as follows. A PCR fragment was generated using primer CP-pyk(5¢-ACGACTAGTGGATCCATNNNNNAGTTTATTCTTGACANNNNNNNNNNNNNNTGRTATAATNNNNAAGTAATAAAATATTCGGAGGAATTTTGAAATGAATAAACGTGTAAAAATCG-3¢)(N¼...
... GreekUsing Syntactic ParsingAthina MichouUniversity of GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandAthina.Michou@unige.chVioleta SeretanUniversity of GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandVioleta.Seretan@unige.chAbstractThis ... lexicon. It contains detailed mor-phosyntactic and semantic information, namely,selectional properties, subcategorization informa-tion, and syntactico-semantic features that arelikely to in uence ... aid tools, especially due tothe increasing interest in computer-assisted trans-lation.This paper presents atool intended to as-sist translators/lexicographers dealing with Greek1as a source...
... English and a French versions of a software manual contain 628 and 640 paragraphs, respectively. In all, there are 30 para- graphs embedded in them which do not have a trans- lation (some in fact ... Introduction Making use of previously translated texts is a very appealing idea that can be of considerable prac- tical and economical benefit as a translation aid. There are different ways to exploit ... 1988] as a final stage of the processing. This will obtain the high accuracy of the computationally in- tensive algorithm while maintaining the benefits of the efficient length-based approach....
... which also served as starting point for the automatic determination of dialogue acts within the semantic evaluation com- ponent, we hand-annotated over 200 dialogues with dialogue act information ... dialogue acts. In addition to the dialogue acts in the main dialogue network, there are five dialogue acts, which we call deviations, that can occur at any point of the dialogue. They are repre- ... repair. Depending on the type of the incoming dialogueact specialized repair operators are used. The simplest case cov- ers dialogue acts which can appear at any point of the dialogue, as...
... online, incre-mental manner to adapt system behaviour to avoidentering a state that is likely to reduce user satis-faction, or can be used as a reward function in a reinforcement-learning scenario ... Proceedings of CHI 1998. doi:10.1145/274644.274722.M. A. Walker, D. J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella. 1997. PARADISE: A framework forevaluating spoken dialogue agents. In Proceed-ings of ACL/EACL ... PARADISE. Natural Language Engineer-ing, 6(3–4):363–377.M. A. Walker. 2000. An application of reinforce-ment learning to dialogue strategy selection in a spoken dialogue system for email. Journal...
... observer's coming to believe anything. We can now state the correlation between ut- terance form and a speaker's mental state as a domain axiom. Domain Axiom 1 Declaratives and Imperatives: ... offered as another ade- quacy criterion for our theory of illocutionary acts. That theory, more fully explicated in [3], is based on an analysis of the individual rational balance agents maintain ... declarative mood utterances, and then the illocutionary act definitions for request- ing and asserting. Finally, we combine the vari- ous analyses natural language processor's task by making...
... IS adopting IP's explanation in IP2. I am assuming that the participants are involved in a cooperative dialogue, so try to square away their beliefs [4]. Thus, after every Inform action, ... a negotiation dialogue. Since both parties are engaged ina cooperative dialoguein which beliefs are squared away, this failure to initiate a negotiation di- alogue by default indicates (implicit) ... Obtain.Info- Ref to determine who is teaching CIS360 and problem- solving actions of Insfanfiate- Var and Build-Plan in or- der to build a plan to take CIS360 so that IS may even- tually...
... measurements are not always available. SO2 air pollution was studied in detail (fourth chapter of this article) in the Šoštanj area of Slovenia. In the Šoštanj basin SODAR measurements were available ... model in the learning phase ina “model understandable” way. To generalize this principle it can be stated that an understandable way is similar to a humanly understandable way. People also cannot ... base, actual measurements of these two parameters on the following days were taken instead of prognostic values. A two year data base was available for model construction and verification. In...
... at each medicalschool focusing on a separate area: “examination andstandards in examination,”“e-learning in medicine,”“evaluation of teaching,”“practical year,” and “prepara-tion for final ... necessary decisions• know and be able to apply legal regulations• be able to establish contact with a patient in anappropriate and empathic manner and have exam-ined, under supervision, at least ... final examination.” The practical year is a Frank and Frank Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2010, 4:21http://www.capmh.com/content/4/1/21Page 4 of 8consolidating and enhancing...