Pragmatic interpretation and dialogue management in spoken-language systems

@article{Zanten1995PragmaticIA,
  title={Pragmatic interpretation and dialogue management in spoken-language systems},
  author={Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten},
  journal={IPO Annual Progress Report},
  year={1995},
  volume={30},
  pages={124-132}
}
This paper describes the design of pragmatic-interpretation and dialogue-management modules in an automatic enquiry system that can be consulted through spoken natural language over the telephone. The system is designed around a central multi-level data structure representing the discourse that has unfolded during the dialogue. At the highest level of this discourse representation the information exchange is represented as a series of information-state changes or updates. Several conditions in… 
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