A reusable multi-agent architecture is presented for interactive diagnostic tasks. The multi-agent system interacts with the user at two levels: at the level of the task itself and at the level of clarification of the process. The three agents distinguished are: a user, a diagnostic support agent and a clarification support agent. The user and the diagnostic support agent co-operate on the basi...

To the Editor: Rogier M. Bertina has written a clear, timely, and authoritative review of factor V Leiden and other coagulation factor mutations affecting thrombotic risk (1). I was confused by the fact that the sum of genetic defects in inherited thrombophilia plus the cases with unknown cause add up to 109.7% (Table 1 of reference 1). This could occur due to multiple defects in individual pat...

In this paper we describe the possibility to carry out cla-riication dialogues in the framework of the face-to-face translation system verbmobil. We focus on a special subtype of clariication dialogues which occur when the system has insuucient information to continue processing. The clariication dialogues currently incorporated in our system concern three aspects: (i) phonological ambiguities ...

We attempt to show that a classical concern of formal semantics, quantification, interacts in an interesting way with dialogue strategies when viewed from the perspective of our approach to semantics using Type Theory with Records (TTR). TTR analyzes semantic content in terms of structured semantic objects containing subcomponents and we argue that these components influence what a dialogue par...

in life and beliefs should be considered at par with the functional variables. Thus how a patient judges the outcome and how the outcomes influences the health related quality of life is as important as clinician's judgement of prognosis. Hence considering a high prevalence (25%) of depression amongst the cancer patients we feel the presence of a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst alongwith the surgeo...