NLP Tools & Dialog Systems

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence that focuses on enabling computers to process, understand, and generate human language. There are many tools available for NLP tasks, and they can be used to build dialog systems, which are systems that can interact with users using natural language.

Some popular NLP tools include:

spaCy: This is a widely-used NLP library for Python that offers tools for tokenization, lemmatization, dependency parsing, and more. It can be used to process and analyze text data for a variety of NLP tasks, including dialog systems.
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit): This is another popular NLP library for Python that provides tools for tokenization, stemming, parsing, and more. It can be used to build dialog systems, as well as for other NLP tasks.
GPT-3 (Generative Pre-training Transformer 3): This is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text and perform various language tasks, including translation, summarization, and question answering. It can be used to build dialog systems that can generate responses to user inputs.
Rasa: This is an open-source framework for building conversational AI systems, including chatbots and voice assistants. It provides tools for building and training models for natural language understanding and generation, as well as tools for managing and deploying dialog systems.
Dialogflow: This is a cloud-based platform for building chatbots and voice assistants. It provides tools for building and training models for natural language understanding and generation, as well as tools for managing and deploying dialog systems.

Wikipedia:

Language technology (aka Human Language Technology)

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Dialog Systems and Their Inputs D Scerri, A Dingli – HCI International 2013-Posters’ Extended Abstracts, 2013 – Springer … The prototype makes use of various natural language processing tools, online and offline knowledge bases, and other information sources, to enable it to comprehend and construct relevant responses. Keywords: Dialog Systems, External Knowledge Acquisition, RDF … Related articles All 2 versions

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[BOOK] Language and computers M Dickinson, C Brew, D Meurers – 2012 – books.google.com … of dialog 6.6 Dialog systems and their tasks 6.7 Eliza 6.8 Spoken dialogs 6.9 How to evaluate a dialog system 6.10 Why … Overview for Instructors Everyday natural language processing tools, such as those mentioned in the previous section, provide new educational opportunities … Cited by 1 Related articles

[BOOK] Domain adaptation for parsing B Plank – 2011 – cst.dk Page 1. Domain Adaptation for Parsing Barbara Plank Page 2. CLCG The work presented here was carried out under the auspices of the Center for Lan- guage and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) at the Faculty of Arts of the University … Cited by 7 Related articles All 6 versions

Interpreting destination descriptions for navigation services Y Wu – 2011 – minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au … Collected from Victorian gazetteer data, real data are prepared with all the required attributes for use. A simple natural language processing tool is employed to parse and identify place names and spatial relation entities for the model. … Related articles All 2 versions

Detecting Off-Task Speech W Chen – 2012 – scs.cmu.edu … robot cooperation. Off-task speech input to computers presents both challenges and opportunities for such dialog systems. … As a prevalent speech event, off- task speech has been acknowledged in many dialog systems, such as health communication … Cited by 1 Related articles All 17 versions

The Multilingual Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12362). P Buitelaar, KS Choi, P Cimiano, EH Hovy – Dagstuhl Reports, 2012 – drops.dagstuhl.de … In this context, we will also discuss how natural language processing tools can benefit from such a linked ecosystem of lexico-semantic background … Ontologies could help dialogue systems triggering predictable actions in AAL smart homes, ie turning off the oven when not used … Cited by 6 Related articles All 2 versions

Ontology-based information extraction CV Monllaó – 2011 – acia.udl.cat Page 1. Master in Artificial Intelligence (UPC-URV-UB) Master of Science Thesis Ontology-based Information Extraction Carlos Vicient Monllaó June, 23rd 2011 Page 2. Page 3. iii Table of contents … Cited by 3 Related articles

The Multilingual Semantic Web P Buitelaar, KSKS Choi, P Cimiano, E Hovy – 2012 – vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de … In this context, we will also discuss how natural language processing tools can benefit from such a linked ecosystem of lexico-semantic background … Ontologies could help dialogue systems triggering predictable actions in AAL smart homes, ie turning off the oven when not used … Cited by 2 Related articles All 2 versions

Automatic generation of factual questions from video documentaries Y Skalban – 2013 – wlv.openrepository.com … identification, and (4) question construction. Question Generation is an important component in dialogue systems, virtual environments, and learning … research questions will be answered: 1. How can Natural Language Processing tools and techniques be used when … Related articles All 5 versions

Joint models for concept-to-text generation I Konstas – 2014 – era.lib.ed.ac.uk … thus inaccessible to non-experts or laypersons. However, most conventional search en- gines and natural language processing tools (eg, summarisers) can only handle textual input. … This is more common in the NLG part of dialogue systems, which need to keep track of what … Cited by 1 Related articles All 5 versions

[BOOK] Formal Specification Level M Soeken, R Drechsler – 2015 – Springer … The translation of natural language specifications into formal models of the FSL using natural language processing tools is described in Chap. … for the first approach is given as the integrated development environment lips which particularly focuses on the dialog system for the … Related articles All 4 versions

[BOOK] Text Mining of Web-based Medical Content A Neustein – 2014 – books.google.com … visu- ally impaired. The author shows how this health dialogue system provides health information about lassa fever, malaria fever, typhoid fever and yellow fever to those who cannot access this information on line. The author … Related articles All 4 versions

What and When Do Students Learn? JP González-Brenes – 2013 – lti.cs.cmu.edu Page 1. What and When Do Students Learn? Methods For Knowledge Tracing With Data-Driven Mapping of Items to Skills José Pablo González-Brenes CMU-LTI-13- 010 Language Technologies Institute School of Computer … Related articles All 11 versions

Moving towards the semantic web: enabling new technologies through the semantic annotation of social contents. C Vicient Monllaó – 2015 – tdx.cbuc.es Page 1. MOVING TOWARDS THE SEMANTIC WEB: ENABLING NEW TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH THE SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF SOCIAL CONTENTS. Carlos Vicient Monllaó Dipòsit Legal: T 155-2015 ADVERTIMENT. … Related articles All 4 versions

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emnlp GH Hotel – 2013 – hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au … For this purpose, we developed a graph-based text representation that makes the relations between textual units explicit. This representation is acquired au- tomatically from a report using natural language processing tools including syntactic and discourse parsers. … All 2 versions

Support for critical analysis of actions in a task-oriented collaborative command and control environment O Leifler – 2010 – ida.liu.se Page 1. Linköping studies in science and technology No. 1234 Support for critical analysis of actions in a task-oriented collaborative command and control environment Ola Leifler Submitted to Institute of Technology at Linköping …

Semi-automatic Domain Modeling from Multilingual Corpora S Pollak – 2014 – kt.ijs.si Page 1. Univerza v Ljubljani/University of Ljubjana Filozofska fakulteta/Faculty of Arts Oddelek za prevajalstvo/Department of Translation Senja Pollak Polavtomatsko modeliranje podro?nega znanja iz ve?jezi?nih korpusov Semi … Cited by 1 Related articles