Processing unknown words in a dialogue system

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Purver

  • Affiliations:
  • King's College London, Strand, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • SIGDIAL '02 Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes a method of processing unknown words in a HPSG-based dialogue system, with acquisition of lexical semantics via clarification questions answered by the user. Use of a highly contextualized semantic representation, together with an utterance-anaphoric view of clarification, allows the clarificational dialogue to be integrated within the grammar and governed by standard rules of conversation.