Construction Grammar & Dialog Systems

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Construction grammar is a theory of linguistics that emphasizes the relationship between grammar and meaning. It posits that people have a mental “toolkit” of grammatical constructions, which are patterns of words and phrases that are used to convey specific meanings. These constructions can be used to understand and generate language.

In the context of dialog systems, construction grammar is used to create a more natural and intuitive interaction between the system and the user. The system is programmed to understand a wide range of constructions, which allows it to understand and respond to a wide range of user inputs. For example, the system can be programmed to recognize different constructions for asking a question, making a request, or giving a command. This allows the system to respond more accurately and appropriately to the user’s intent.

Construction grammar can also be used to improve the generation of language by the dialog system, by allowing it to produce more natural-sounding responses. This can be achieved by using constructions that are appropriate for the context of the conversation and that convey the intended meaning effectively.

The following references discuss the use of construction grammar in the development of spoken dialogue systems. Construction grammar is a theory of linguistics that emphasizes the relationship between grammar and meaning, and it is being applied in the development of systems that can understand and respond to spoken language. The text mentions the use of tree structures in a variety of applications, including speech understanding systems, dialog systems, and machine translation systems. The text also notes that the goal of this research is to create a natural language dialogue system that is easy for users to interact with, and that this requires the system to be able to understand and respond to a wide range of commands. The text also mentions the importance of understanding grammar and sentence construction in the development of these systems.

Tree structures are commonly used in construction grammar-based dialog systems to represent the syntactic and semantic structure of sentences. These tree structures, also known as parse trees, provide a visual representation of the grammatical relations between words and phrases in a sentence.

In a dialog system, tree structures are used to analyze and interpret the user’s input. The system first parses the user’s input into a tree structure, which allows it to identify the grammatical constructions used in the sentence and the relationships between the words and phrases. This information is then used to determine the user’s intent and to generate an appropriate response.

For example, if the user says “What’s the weather like in New York City today?” the system will parse the sentence into a tree structure that shows the subject, verb, and object of the sentence, as well as the prepositional phrase modifying the object. This tree structure will indicate that the user is asking a question about the weather in New York City today, and the system can use this information to generate an appropriate response such as “The weather in New York City today is mostly sunny with a high of 75 degrees.”

Additionally, in some systems tree structures are used to generate a more natural-sounding responses by using constructions that are appropriate for the context of the conversation and that convey the intended meaning effectively.

A parse tree, also known as a syntax tree, is a tree structure that represents the syntactic structure of a sentence or a phrase according to a formal grammar. Each node in the tree represents a constituent of the sentence, such as a noun phrase, verb phrase, or prepositional phrase, and the edges between the nodes represent the grammatical relationships between the constituents.

A parse tree is typically generated by a process called parsing, which involves analyzing the sentence or phrase according to the rules of the formal grammar and identifying the constituent structure. The process of parsing begins with the highest level of the tree, the root node, and proceeds to the lower levels of the tree, where the individual words and phrases are represented.

In natural language processing, parse trees are used to analyze and understand the meaning of sentences. They are also used in many other fields such as compilers and interpreters, where they are used to understand the structure of a program and to generate the corresponding machine code.

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16.1601, Calls: Comp Ling/Corpus Ling/UK; General Ling/France A Belz – tonews.com … general purpose corpora for NLG We would like to emphasise that where we say ‘NLG’ we mean to include the language generation components of MT and dialogue systems. … CROFT, William (2001) Radical Construction Grammar, Oxford. Oxford University Press. … Related articles – Cached

[BOOK] A computational model of natural language communication: interpretation, inference, and production in database semantics [PDF] from qservice.lt RR Hausser – 2006 – books.google.com … For example, when using the cognition of the talking robot for building an au- tomatic dialogue system used over the phone … LFG, Bresnan 1982, 2001), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG, Pollard and Sag 1987, 1994), and Construction Grammar (Östman and Fried … Cited by 33 – Related articles – Library Search – All 36 versions

Spoken language interface M Gadd, K Trott, HW Tsui… – US Patent App. …, 2003 – freepatentsonline.com … In one embodiment according to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a development suite comprising a development tool as herein described. The development suite may include dialogue flow construction, grammar creation and/or debugging and analysis tools. … Cached

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Spoken language interface M Gadd, K Trott, HW Tsui, M Stairmand… – US Patent App. 10/ …, 2003 – Google Patents Page 1. US 20050033582A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (io) Pub. No.: US 2005/0033582 Al Gadd et al. (43) Pub. Date: Feb. 10,2005 (54) SPOKEN LANGUAGE INTERFACE (76) Inventors: Michael …

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[BOOK] Flat but not shallow: towards flatter representations in deep semantic parsing for precise and feasible inferencing [PDF] from leidenuniv.nl HHGB Reckman – 2009 – openaccess.leidenuniv.nl … this thesis. The project aims at the development of a natural language dialogue system that discloses personal narratives to facilitate patients (and their relatives) in finding relevant experiences of their fellow patients. The system … Related articles – Library Search – All 5 versions

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