The Representation and Use of Focus in a System for Understanding Dialogs
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 67-75.
Abstract
As a dialog progresses . the objects and actions that are most relevant to the conversation , and hence in the focus of attention of the dialog participants, change. This paper describes a representation of focus for language understanding systems , emphasizing its use in understanding taskoriented dialogs. The representation highlights that part of the knowledge base relevant at a given point in a dialog. A model of the task is used both to structure the focus representation and to provide an index into potentially relevant concepts in the knowledge base . The use of the focus representation to make retrieval of items from the knowledge base more efficient is described.
@inproceedings{ijcai1977p12,
title = {The Representation and Use of Focus in a System for Understanding Dialogs},
author = {Grosz, Barbara J.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-77}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Raj Reddy},
pages = {67--75},
year = {1977},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/12},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - The Representation and Use of Focus in a System for Understanding Dialogs AU - Grosz, Barbara J. T2 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-77 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1977 SP - 67 EP - 75 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/12 ER -Copied
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