Exemplary and complete object interaction descriptions

Exemplary and Complete Object Interaction Descriptions

In this paper we present a variant of message sequence diagrams called EETs Extended Event Traces We provide the graphical notation discuss the methodological use of EETs to describe behavior of object oriented busi ness information systems and sketch their semantics Special emphasis is put on the di erent implications of using EETs for exemplary and complete interaction descriptions The possib...

An Exemplary Interaction with SmartKom

The different instantiations of the SmartKom demonstration system offer a broad range of application functions and sophisticated dialogue capabilities. We provide a first look at the final SmartKom prototype from the point of view of the end user. In particular, a typical interaction sequence will be presented in order to illustrate the functionality of the integrated multimodal dialogue system.

Object Descriptions Revisited

Parsing into Discourse Object Descriptions

This paper reports work on the design of a natural language interface with a limited dialogue capability. It is argued that (i) The interpretation of the input is preferably represented as a structure of Discourse Object Descriptions (DODs); (ii) The DODs must be determined on the basis of different types of knowledge such as grammatical knowledge, object type deirmitions and knowledge about ex...

Word and Object in Disease Descriptions

Experiments were conducted on a book, Current Medical Information and Terminolog~, (AMA, Chicago, 1971, edited by Burgess Gordon, M.D.), which is a compendium of 3262 diseases, each of which is defined by a collection of attributes. The original purpose of the book was to introduce a standard nomenclature of disease names, and the attributes are organized in conventional medical form: a definit...