Multi-Modal Definite Clause Grammar

  • Authors:
  • Hideo Shimazu;Seigo Arita;Yosuke Takashima

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Corporation, Miyamae Kawasaki, Japan;NEC Corporation, Miyamae Kawasaki, Japan;NEC Corporation, Miyamae Kawasaki, Japan

  • Venue:
  • COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper describes the first reported grammatical framework for a multimodal interface. Although multimodal interfaces offer the promise of a flexible and user friendly means of human-computer interaction, no study has yet appeared on formal grammatical frameworks for them. We have developed Multi-Modal Definite Clause Grammar (MM-DCG), an extension of Definite Clause Grammar. The major features of MM-DCG include capability to handle an arbitrary number of modes and temporal information in grammar rules. Further, we have developed MM-DCG translator to transfer rules in MM-DCG into Prolog predicates.