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Turn off the Radio and Call Again: How Acoustic Clues can Improve Dialogue Management

Traditionally, the most imPortant input to the dialogue management component of a natural language system are semantic representations (e.g., formulae of first-order predicate calculus). Only recently, other kinds of information (e.g., phonetic transcriptions of unknown words) has been used. There is, however, room for the utilization of additional knowledge sources. In what follows, we first e...

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Explicit Fusions

We introduce explicit fusions of names. An explicit fusion is a process that exists concurrently with the rest of the system and enables two names to be used interchangeably. Explicit fusions provide a small-step account of reaction in process calculi such as the pi calculus and the fusion calculus. In this respect they are similar to the explicit substitutions of Abadi, Cardelli and Curien, wh...

Transformed fusions

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