Discourse Processing of Dialogues with Multiple Threads

Abstract

In this paper we will present our ongoing work on a plan-based discourse processor developed in the context of the Enthusiast Spanish to English translation system as part of the JANUS multi-lingual speech-tospeech translation system. We will demonstrate that theories of discourse which postulate a strict tree structure of discourse on either the intentional or attentional level are not totally adequate for handling spontaneous dialogues. We will present our extension to this approach along with its implementation in our plan-based discourse processor. We will demonstrate that the implementation of our approach outperforms an implementation based on the strict tree structure approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA574749

Entities

People

  • Barbara Di Eugenio
  • Carol Van Ess-dykema
  • Carolyn Penstein Rose
  • Lori S. Levin

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Natural Languages
  • Negotiations
  • Recognition
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Translations

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