Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering
Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering

Author: D. Sonntag

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2010-01-05

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1614993386

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Question answering (QA) has become one of the fastest growing topics in computational linguistics and information access. To advance research in the area of dialogue-based question answering, we propose a combination of methods from different scientific fields (i.e., Information Retrieval, Dialogue Systems, Semantic Web, and Machine Learning). This book sheds light on adaptable dialogue-based question answering. We demonstrate the technical and computational feasibility of the proposed ideas, the introspective methods in particular, by beginning with an extensive introduction to the dialogical problem domain which motivates the technical implementation. The ideas have been carried out in a mature natural language processing (NLP) system, the SmartWeb dialogue system, which was developed between 2004 and 2007 by partners from academia and industry. We have attempted to make this book a self-containing text and provide an extra section on the interdisciplinary scientific background. The target audience for this book comprises of researchers and students interested in the application potential of semantic technologies for difficult AI tasks such as working dialogue and QA systems.

Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction
Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction

Author: Erik Marchi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-10

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 981159323X

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This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to language and context understanding, and dialogue management, as well as human–robot interaction, conversational agents, question answering and lifelong learning for dialogue systems.

Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments
Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments

Author: Gary Geunbae Lee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 3642162029

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Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWDS 2010, held in Gotemba, Japan, in October 2010. The 22 session papers presented together with 2 invited keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers deal with topics around Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environment and discuss common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques.

Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

Author: Bernadette Sharp

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1501501313

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Peer reviewed articles from the Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS) 2014 meeting in October 2014 workshop. The meeting fosters interactions among researchers and practitioners in NLP by taking a Cognitive Science perspective. Articles cover topics such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology and language learning.

Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones
Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

Author: Joseph Mariani

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1461482801

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These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.

KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Dietmar Seipel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-09-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3031426088

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2023, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.The 14 full and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers deal with research on theory and applications across all methods and topic areas of AI research.

Perspectives on Ontology Learning
Perspectives on Ontology Learning

Author: J. Lehmann

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1614993793

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Perspectives on Ontology Learning brings together researchers and practitioners from different communities − natural language processing, machine learning, and the semantic web − in order to give an interdisciplinary overview of recent advances in ontology learning. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of ontology learning methods, the edited volume presents the state-of-the-start in automated knowledge acquisition and maintenance. It outlines future challenges in this area with a special focus on technologies suitable for pushing the boundaries beyond the creation of simple taxonomical structures, as well as on problems specifically related to knowledge modeling and representation using the Web Ontology Language. Perspectives on Ontology Learning is designed for researchers in the field of semantic technologies and developers of knowledge-based applications. It covers various aspects of ontology learning including ontology quality, user interaction, scalability, knowledge acquisition from heterogeneous sources, as well as the integration with ontology engineering methodologies.

Computing with Instinct
Computing with Instinct

Author: Yang Cai

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3642197566

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Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication. The world's magnificence has been enriched by the inner drive of instincts, the profound drive of our everyday life. Instinct is an inherited behavior that responds to environmental stimuli. Instinctive computing is a computational simulation of biological and cognitive instincts, which influence how we see, feel, appear, think and act. If we want a computer to be genuinely secure, intelligent, and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, and even to have primitive instincts. This book, Computing with Instincts, comprises the proceedings of the Instinctive Computing Workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University in the summer of 2009. It is the first state-of-the-art survey on this subject. The book consists of three parts: Instinctive Sensing, Communication and Environments, including new experiments with in vitro biological neurons for the control of mobile robots, instinctive sound recognition, texture vision, visual abstraction, genre in cultures, human interaction with virtual world, intuitive interfaces, exploitive interaction, and agents for smart environments.

A Method for Reusing and Re-engineering Non-ontological Resources for Building Ontologies
A Method for Reusing and Re-engineering Non-ontological Resources for Building Ontologies

Author: B.M. Villazón-Terrazas

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1614993467

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The general objective of the thesis is to provide domain independent, and resource independent methods and tools for speeding up the ontology development process and is achieved by reusing and re-engineering as much as possible available non-ontological resources (NORs). To fulfil this overall goal, we have decomposed it into the following methodological and technological objectives: - The definition of methodological aspects related to the reuse of non-ontological resources for building ontologies. - The definition of methodological aspects related to the re-engineering of non-ontological resources for building ontologies. - The creation of a library of patterns for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies. - The development of a software library, NOR2O, that implements the suggestions given by the re-engineering patterns.