User models in dialog systems

W Wahlster, A Kobsa - User models in dialog systems, 1989 - Springer
This chapter surveys the field of user modeling in artificial intelligence dialog systems. First,
reasons why user modeling has become so important in the last few years are pointed out …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling the user in natural language systems

R Kass, T Finin - Computational Linguistics, 1988 - aclanthology.org
For intelligent interactive systems to communicate with humans in a natural manner, they
must have knowledge about the system users. This paper explores the role of user modeling …

[PDF][PDF] Recovery strategies for parsing extragrammatical language

JG Carbonell, PJ Hayes - American journal of computational …, 1983 - aclanthology.org
Practical natural language interfaces must exhibit robust behaviour in the presence of
extragrammatical user input. This paper classifies different types of grammatical deviations …

GUMS—A general user modeling shell

TW Finin - User models in dialog systems, 1989 - Springer
This chapter discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in system
maintained models of users. In particular, we describe the general architecture of a domain …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-rules as a basis for processing ill-formed input

R Weischedel, NK Sondheimer - American Journal of …, 1983 - aclanthology.org
We propose meta-rules and a control structure under which they are invoked as a framework
for processing ill-formed input. The left-hand side of a meta-rule diagnoses a problem as a …

[PDF][PDF] A news story categorization system

PJ Hayes, LE Knecht, MJ Cellio - Second Conference on Applied …, 1988 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes a pilot version of a commercial application of natural language
processing techniques to the problem of categorizing news stories into broad topic …

[PDF][PDF] Retrieval performance in ferret a conceptual information retrieval system

ML Mauldin - Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM …, 1991 - dl.acm.org
Retrieval performance in Ferret a conceptual information retrieval system Page 1 Retrieval
Performance in FERRET A Conceptual Information Retrieval System Michael L. Mauldin Center …

XTRA: a natural-language access system to expert systems

J Allgayer, K Harbusch, A Kobsa, C Reddig… - International Journal of …, 1989 - Elsevier
The XTRA access system to expert systems is presented which is aimed at rendering the
interaction with expert systems easier for inexperienced users. XTRA communicates with the …

User models and conversational settings: Modeling the user's wants

K Morik - User Models in Dialog Systems, 1989 - Springer
In general, the cycle of system development can be viewed as consisting of four phases:
theoretical considerations, design practical implementation and experimentation evaluation …

[PDF][PDF] Semantic rule based text generation

ML Mauldin - … Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd …, 1984 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents a semantically oriented, rule based method for single sentence text
generation and discusses its implementation in the Kafka generator. This generator is part of …