Incremental semantic construction in a dialogue system

Authors:
Matthew Purver;Arash Eshghi;Julian Hough
Affiliations:
Queen Mary University of London;Queen Mary University of London;Queen Mary University of London
Venue:
IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper describes recent work on the DynDial project* towards incremental semantic interpretation in dialogue. We outline our domain-general grammar-based approach, using a variant of Dynamic Syntax integrated with Type Theory with Records and a Davidsonian event-based semantics. We describe a Java-based implementation of the parser, used within the Jindigo framework to produce an incremental dialogue system capable of handling inherently incremental phenomena such as split utterances, adjuncts, and mid-sentence clarification requests or backchannels.