What's the Point?

Abstract

Understanding dialogue usually requires determining the intent, or point, of the utterance. Finding the point serves to constrain further processing. We present a categorization of points, and we propose algorithms and heuristics for deriving the point of a given utterance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103005

Entities

People

  • Ernest Davis
  • Gregg C. Collins
  • Peter N. Johnson
  • Roger Schank
  • Steve Lytinen

Organizations

  • Yale University

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  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

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  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Science
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  • Electronics
  • Information Systems
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  • Computer science

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  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computational Linguistics