Questions in estonian information dialogues: form and functions

  • Authors:

  • Tiit Hennoste;Olga Gerassimenko;Riina Kasterpalu;Mare Koit;Andriela Rääbis;Krista Strandson;Maret Valdisoo

  • Affiliations:

  • ,University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  • Venue:
  • TSD'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Questions have been analyzed in Estonian information dialogues with the purpose of finding out the linguistic features that can be used in automatic recognition of various types of questions. Information questions (i.e. the questions that are used for requesting information) and questions that initiate solving communication problems are considered. The study shows which types of questions (wh-question, open and closed yes/no question, question that offers answer, alternative question) are preferred in both cases. The results can be implemented in a dialogue system which performs the role of information provider and interacts with a user in Estonian.