“Having Identified an Utterance ...” – Predication and Interpretation

Towards Context-adaptive Utterance Interpretation

Incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning for interactive dialogue

We present techniques for the incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning in dialogue systems. These techniques open possibilities for systems to initiate responsive overlap behaviors during user speech, such as interrupting, acknowledging, or completing a user’s utterance while it is still in progress. In an implemented system, we show that relatively high accuracy can be ac...

The Interpretation of Set Theory in Mathematical Predication Theory

Predication 1 Predication

Towards the Interpretation of Utterance Sequences in a Dialogue System

This paper describes a probabilistic mechanism for the interpretation of sentence sequences developed for a spoken dialogue system mounted on a robotic agent. The mechanism receives as input a sequence of sentences, and produces an interpretation which integrates the interpretations of individual sentences. For our evaluation, we collected a corpus of hypothetical requests to a robot. Our mecha...