Human-Computer Interaction with the traditional User Interface is done using a specified in advance script dialog “menu”, mainly based on human intellect and unproductive use of navigation. This approach doesn’t lead to making qualitative decision in control systems, where the situations and processes cannot be structured in advance. Any dynamic changes in the controlled business process (as ex...

This demo presents the TextCoop platform and the Dislog language, based on logic programming, which have primarily been designed for discourse processing. The linguistic architecture and the basics of discourse analysis in TextCoop are introduced. Application demos include: argument mining in opinon texts, dialog analysis, and procedural and requirement texts analysis. Via prototypes in the ind...

The PIT corpus is a German multi-media corpus of multi-party dialogues recorded in a Wizard-of-Oz environment at the University of Ulm. The scenario involves two human dialogue partners interacting with a multi-modal dialogue system in the domain of restaurant selection. In this paper we present the characteristics of the data which was recorded in three sessions resulting in a total of 75 dial...

Service-dominant logic (S-D logic) is contrasted with goods-dominant (G-D) logic to provide a framework for thinking more clearly about he concept of service and its role in exchange and competition. Then, relying upon the nine foundational premises of S-D logic [Vargo, tephen L. and Robert F. Lusch (2004). “Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing,” Journal of Marketing, 68 (January) 1–1...

This paper describes the Swedish spoken dialogue system August. This system has been used to collect spontaneous speech data, largely from people with no previous experience of speech technology or computers. The aim was to be able to analyse how novice users interact with a multi-modal information kiosk, placed without supervision in a public location. The system described in this paper featur...

We present an implemented, well-tested discourse model used in several monoas well as multimodal dialog systems. We provide a detailed description of the underlying representation and show how such challenging phenomena like cross-modal anaphoric expressions and ellipses are processed.

In a human-computer dialogue system, the dialogue strategy can range from very restrictive to highly flexible. Each specific dialogue style has its pros and cons and a dialogue system needs to select the most appropriate style for a given user. During the course of interaction, the dialogue style can change based on a user’s response and the system observation of the user. This allows a dialogu...

Logical constructions in speech of 4-6 years old children are investigated by using the dialog system DST for transformation of the natural language texts. The research has brought up the point, that children are able to operate both on the first-level (predicate) calculus, and higher-level predicate calculus – that means formulas creation. It is remarkable how the constructs of making conclusi...