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Abductive reasoning, also known as abduction or retroduction, is a form of logical inference that is used to explain observed phenomena by postulating the most likely explanation for those phenomena. In abductive reasoning, one starts with an observation or set of observations, and then infers the simplest and most likely explanation for those observations.
In the context of dialog systems, abductive reasoning is used to generate appropriate responses to user queries. When a user poses a question or makes a statement, the dialog system uses abductive reasoning to infer the most likely intention behind the user’s words, and then generates a response that is appropriate to that intention.
For example, if a user asks “What’s the weather like today?”, the dialog system might use abductive reasoning to infer that the user is asking for the current weather conditions, and then generate a response that provides the current temperature, precipitation, and other relevant information.
Abductive reasoning is a valuable tool for dialog systems because it allows them to generate appropriate responses in a wide range of situations, even when the user’s words are vague or ambiguous. By using abductive reasoning, dialog systems can provide users with useful and relevant information, and can engage in natural, human-like conversations.
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- Abductive Reasoning (aka “guessing”)
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Annotating dialogue acts to construct dialogue systems for consulting [PDF] from pitt.edu K Ohtake, T Misu, C Hori, H Kashioka… – Proceedings of the 7th …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … Our future work also includes a condensation or selection of dialogue acts that di- rectly affect the dialogue flow in order to construct a consulting dialogue system using the DA … In Harry Bunt and William Black, editors, Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue, pages 81–150. … Cited by 9 – Related articles – All 13 versions
Dialogue Acts Annotation to Construct Dialogue Systems for Consulting K Ohtake, T Misu, C Hori, H Kashioka… – … Dialogue Systems …, 2011 – Springer Chapter 10 DIALOGUE ACTS ANNOTATION TO CONSTRUCT DIALOGUE SYSTEMS FOR CONSULTING … tor Machines (SVMs). In addition, we mention the usage of our corpus for the spoken dialogue system that is being developed. Keywords: Corpus; Dialogue act tagging. … Cited by 1 – Related articles
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Argumentation and artifact for dialogue support [PDF] from pp.ua E Oliva, M Viroli, A Omicini… – Argumentation in Multi-Agent …, 2009 – Springer … Formally, a multi-agent dialogue system for argumentation is composed of two parts: an argumentation system, and a dialogue system. … The symbol ? denotes classical inference (different styles will be used like deduction, induction and abduction) = denotes logical equivalence … Cited by 8 – Related articles – All 17 versions
EA NLU: Practical Language Understanding for Cognitive Modeling [PDF] from northwestern.edu E Tomai… – Proceedings of the 22nd International Florida Artificial …, 2009 – aaai.org … Since hypothetical futures were a central part of understanding the decision, this is not unexpected. Figure 6: Complexity trends for abduction. Related Work … For example, most spokenYlanguage dialogue systems (cf. Allen et al. 2007) are tuned for a specific type of task. … Cited by 15 – Related articles – All 6 versions
Argumentation without arguments H Prakken – Argumentation, 2011 – Springer … such as abduction, statistical reasoning and coherence-based reasoning) but that can still be the subject of argumentative dialogue. Some recent work in artificial intelligence is discussed which embeds non-argumentative infer- ence in an argumentative dialogue system, and … Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 4 versions
[PDF] A set of collaborative semantics for an abstract dialogue framework [PDF] from liu.se J Marcos, MA Falappa… – … in Practical Dialogue Systems, 2009 – ida.liu.se … the present work in which we intend to abstractly and formally specify the main require- ments to be achieved by collaborative dialogue systems, as well … Furthermore, we will see how the concept of abduction in logic is related to the construction of this potential relevance notions … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions
Multidimensional dialogue management [PDF] from upenn.edu S Keizer, H Bunt… – Interactive Multi-modal Question- …, 2011 – Springer … Most state- of-the-art dialogue systems contain a dialogue manager, which takes care of deciding which action to take next in the dialogue, given some form of information state or context model that is monitored and updated during the dialogue. … Cited by 17 – Related articles – All 24 versions
Semantically characterizing collaborative behavior in an abstract dialogue framework M Marcos, M Falappa… – Foundations of Information and …, 2010 – Springer … the present work, in which we intend to abstractly and formally specify the main requirements to be achieved by collaborative dialogue systems, as well … Furthermore, we will see how the concept of abduction in logic is related to the construction of this potential relevance notions … Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 2 versions
A constraint satisfaction approach to context-sensitive utterance generation in multi-party dialogue systems V Popescu, J Caelen… – International Journal of Speech …, 2009 – Springer … generation in multi-party dialogue systems Vladimir Popescu · Jean Caelen · Corneliu Burileanu … Abstract In this paper we present a constraint satisfaction approach to the pragmatic control of the language genera- tion process in dialogue systems. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 3 versions
Dynamic Argumentation in Abstract Dialogue Frameworks M Marcos, M Falappa… – Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, 2011 – Springer … 235 identified three requirements, R1-R3, to be ideally achieved by collaborative dialogue systems. … c (c) a b c (d) Fig. 1. A dialogue under the Utopian Collaborative Semantics An essential requirement of dialogue systems is ensuring the termination of the generated dialogues. … Related articles
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Learning to interpret utterances using dialogue history [PDF] from aclweb.org D DeVault… – Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … As an alternative to annotation, we argue here that dialogue systems can and should prepare their own training data by inference from under- specified models, which provide sets of candi- date meanings, and from skilled engagement with their interlocutors, who know which … Cited by 7 – Related articles – All 18 versions
[PDF] Research focus: Interactional aspects of spoken face-to-face communication [PDF] from kth.se J Beskow, J Edlund, J Gustafson, M Heldner… – Proc. of Fonetik …, 2010 – speech.kth.se … In semi- automatic dialogue systems modelling speaking and listening as parallel and mutually aware processes, we use two scenarios to verify and validate our results … In: H Bunt & B Black, eds, Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in Computational Pragmatics. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions
Towards multimodal content representation [PDF] from arxiv.org H Bunt… – Arxiv preprint arXiv:0909.4280, 2009 – arxiv.org … the definition of a multimodal content representation format that would be used, among other possibilities, to exchange information between processing modules within a man-machine dialogue system. … In H. Bunt and W. Black, editors, Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue. … Cited by 21 – Related articles – All 14 versions
[PDF] A basic cognitive system for interactive continuous learning of visual concepts [PDF] from uio.no D Skocaj, M Janicek, M Kristan, GJM Kruijff… – Proceedings of the …, 2010 – ifi.uio.no … The vision subarchitecture can pose clarification requests to the dialogue system. … Reference resolution is done in this larger context of establishing the “best explanation.” Abduction opts for that referential hypothesis which leads to the overall best proof. … Cited by 7 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 8 versions
Dialogue act annotation for consulting dialogue corpus K Ohtake, T Misu, C Hori, H Kashioka… – Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … Many studies have focused on developing spoken dialogue systems. … In this paper, we introduce our corpus, which is being de- veloped as part of a project to construct consulting dialogue systems with statistical methods, that helps the user in mak- ing a decision. … Related articles
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[PDF] On the nature of argument schemes [PDF] from psu.edu H Prakken – Festschrift for Douglas Walton, 2010 – Citeseer … of how reasoning methods can be combined, and I shall argue that this goes beyond the usual nonmonotonic logics and dialogue systems. … was broadened to other forms of defeasible reasoning, such as various forms of causal or temporal reasoning, induction and abduction. … Cited by 14 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions
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A half-way semantics toward collaborative behavior in interagent dialogues M Marcos, M Falappa… – Advances in Artificial Intelligence– …, 2010 – Springer … and which will be reconsidered in Section 4. The notion, called an abductive relevance notion, is defined using the concept of abduction in PLP. … certain topic, if its addition generates a new element in the abduction set of the topic from the public knowledge. … Related articles – All 3 versions
Legal electronic institutions and ONTOMEDIA: dialogue, inventio, and relational justice scenarios P Casanovas – AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. …, 2010 – Springer … interactions. 3.1 Dialogue Systems Dialogue systems built up in the AI & Law domain use to be symmetrical, iterative, cyclic and procedurally-driven [17]. Legal … Inv. III.1] [52] 5 Relational Justice: Dialogue, Abduction and Reasoning There … Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 3 versions
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Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations [PDF] from lifl.fr M Morge, S Abdel-Naby… – Argumentation in Multi-Agent …, 2011 – Springer … For this purpose, we suggest the exploitation of existing argumentation tools, such as those found in [7,8,9]. Using these tools we intend to build a sales-driven dialogue system that is capable of leading a virtual seller agent to influence the decision of a potential buyer in an e … Cited by 4 – Related articles – All 8 versions
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Applying automated deduction to natural language understanding [PDF] from rug.nl J Bos – Journal of Applied Logic, 2009 – Elsevier … for instance, see [16]), the other giving up the idea of deduction as the principal form of inference but rather view abduction as the … The second is a spoken dialogue system, interfaced to a mobile robot and an automated home environment, that uses theorem proving and model … Cited by 6 – Related articles – All 3 versions
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[PDF] People, Sensors, Decisions: Customizable and Adaptive Technologies for Assistance in Healthcare [PDF] from utl.pt J Hoey, A Monk… – POMDP Pratitioners Workshop, 2010 – users.isr.ist.utl.pt … Encoders in the end-effector of the robotic device provide data to indicate Page 6. hand position and shoulder abduction/internal rotation (ie compensation) during the exercise. Unobtrusive trunk sen- sors provide data to indicate trunk rotation compensation. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions
[PDF] Computational models of social and emotional turn-taking for embodied conversational agents: a review [PDF] from utwente.nl M Bruijnes – 2012 – eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl … Traum et al. (2005), Prendinger and Ishizuka (2001)), in task-oriented dialog systems represent- ing agents that help users find their way in virtual environments (Hofs et al. (2010)), in storytelling systems (Theune et al. (2004)),in … View as HTML
[PDF] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Technologies [PDF] from unideb.hu L Hunyadi – Argumentum, 2011 – argumentum.unideb.hu … Theoretical Modeling and Application in Speech Processing1 Abstract Robots have been around for several decades with an ever increasing role, especially in industry. Nowadays they are used in information systems as well, eg public real-time dialogue systems. … Cited by 4 – Related articles – View as HTML
Computational models of social and emotional turn-taking for embodied conversational agents: a review [PDF] from utwente.nl R Akker… – 2012 – doc.utwente.nl … Traum et al. (2005), Prendinger and Ishizuka (2001)), in task-oriented dialog systems represent- ing agents that help users find their way in virtual environments (Hofs et al. (2010)), in storytelling systems (Theune et al. (2004)),in …
Twelve Angry Men or One Good Woman? Asymmetric Relations in Evidentiary Reasoning1 B Schafer – Legal evidence and proof: statistics, stories, logic, 2009 – books.google.com Page 273. Chapter 10 Twelve Angry Men or One Good Woman? Asymmetric Relations in Evidentiary Reasoning1 Burkhard Schafer 1. Introduction and Methodological Preliminaries Over the past couple of years, analysis of … Related articles
[PDF] Virtual feedback: perceived evidence for grounding [PDF] from uvt.nl MJE Lammers – 2011 – arno.uvt.nl Page 1. Virtual feedback: perceived evidence for grounding MJE Lammers S 91.76.56 HAIT Master Thesis series nr. 11-004 http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about- tilburg-university/schools/humanities/hait/thesisseries/ THESIS … Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions
A Survey of Computational Semantics: Representation, Inference and Knowledge in Wide-Coverage Text Understanding [PDF] from rug.nl J Bos – Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011 – Wiley Online Library … First of all, the coverage and accuracy of implemented systems is now reaching levels of sophistication and robustness that make formal methods potentially useful in real-world applications such as information retrieval, information extraction, spoken dialogue systems and … Related articles – All 3 versions
Exploitation du terrain commun pour la production d’expressions référentielles dans les systèmes de dialogue [PDF] from archives-ouvertes.fr A Denis, M Quignard – 2009 – hal.archives-ouvertes.fr … This ability – fundamental for reaching mutual understanding – is often neglected in dialogue system design. … An activity based approach to pragmatics. In B. BUNT,H.&BLACK, Ed., Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in Computational Pragmatics, p. 47– 80. … Related articles – All 7 versions
[PDF] Modeling Social Causality and Responsibility Judgment in Multi-Agent Interactions [PDF] from jair.org W Mao… – Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2012 – jair.org Page 1. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 44 (2012) 223-273 Submitted 11/11; published 05/12 © 2012 AI Access Foundation. All rights reserved. Modeling Social Causality and Responsibility Judgment in Multi-Agent Interactions Wenji Mao WENJI.MAO@IA.AC.CN … View as HTML
[BOOK] Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, Cicling 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings A Gelbukh – 2012 – books.google.com Page 1. Alexander Gelbukh (Ed.) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 13th International Conference, C|CLing 2012 New Delhi, India, March 2012 Proceedings, Part I LNCS 7181 @ Springer Page 2. Lecture …
Toward a Neuroethology of Schizophrenia: Findings from the Crimean Project VP Samokhvalov… – Handbook of Schizophrenia …, 2011 – Springer … imposed on the components of speech. In addition, the behaviour varies depending on the stimulus and dialogue system because the existence of an inductor and a recipient is always assumed. Essentially, it is possible to investigate … Related articles – All 2 versions
Automatic Speech Recognition for ageing voices [PDF] from ed.ac.uk R Vipperla – 2011 – era.lib.ed.ac.uk … (Chapter 4) • Maria Wolters, Ravichander Vipperla, and Steve Renals. Age Recognition for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Do We Need It? In Proceedings of Interspeech, … As a result, precise control of the vocal cord tension and complete abduction/adduction is affected. Page 25. … Related articles – All 5 versions
Automatic design of multimodal presentations [PDF] from uni-saarland.de W Wahlster – 2011 – scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de … 1991). [Wahlster et al. 78] W. Wahlster, A. Jameson and W. Hoeppner, Glancing, Referring and Explaining in the Dialogue System HAM-RPM, American Journal of Computer Linguistics, Microfiche 77 (1978) 53-67. [Wahlster et al. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 11 versions
[PDF] A Computational Pragmatic Account of Conversational Implicatures [PDF] from googlecode.com L Benotti… – 2009 – thesis-benotti.googlecode.com … 31 3.5 Abduction versus Planning … Second, even if the principles are sufficiently clear so that a computational account can be formulated, there may still be a problem providing a given computa- tional dialogue system with the appropriate knowledge to carry out the inferences in … View as HTML
Argumentation E Nissan – Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, …, 2012 – Springer Page 1. Chapter 3 Argumentation 3.1 Types of Arguments In court, lawyers seek to persuade the adjudicator. By contrast, their attitude towards the other party is conflictual, eristic, and they do not expect to persuade the other party while in court. …
[PDF] Agreement Technologies Handbook Chapter Chapter on Norms (DRAFT) [PDF] from agreement-technologies.eu G Andrighetto… – 2011 – agreement-technologies.eu Page 1. Agreement Technologies Handbook Chapter Chapter on Norms (DRAFT) Giulia Andrighetto Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy Cristiano Castelfranchi Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy … Related articles – View as HTML
[PDF] Recognising Emotions and Sentiments in Text [PDF] from sydney.edu.au S Mac Kim – 2011 – sydney.edu.au … GI General Inquirer HCI Human-Computer Interaction IESs Intelligent Educational Systems ISEAR International Survey on Emotion Antecedents and Reactions ITSs Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITSPOKE Intelligent Tutoring SPOKEn dialogue system KBANN Knowledge-Based … View as HTML
Intelligent Processing of an Unrestricted Text in First Order String Calculus A Gleibman – Transactions on Computational Science V, 2009 – Springer Page 1. ML Gavrilova et al. (Eds.): Trans. on Comput. Sci. V, LNCS 5540, pp. 99–127, 2009. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 Intelligent Processing of an Unrestricted Text in First Order String Calculus Andrew Gleibman … Related articles – All 3 versions
[CITATION] F-017 ??·??·????????????????????????? (F ??: ????·???, ????) ????, ????… – ????????????????, 2010 – ci.nii.ac.jp … ??? CiNii????? CiNii??????????????????????. F-017 ??·??· ?????????????????????????(F??:????·???,????) F-017 An Open-ended Dialog System Using Mechanism of Deduction, Induction and Abduction. … Cached
[PDF] Computational Pragmatics [PDF] from googlecode.com L Benotti… – 2009 – thesis-benotti.googlecode.com … 13 1.4 Analysis by syntesis in dialogue systems . . . . . 13 1.4.1 The role of means-ends reasoning . . . . . … 42 3.4 Interpretation and generation as Abduction . . . . . 43 3.5 Abduction versus Planning . . . . . … Related articles – View as HTML
Inference, Deduction, Logic [PDF] from bbk.ac.uk I Rumfitt – Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and …, 2012 – books.google.com Page 350. 15 Inference, Deduction, Logic Ian Rumfitt with characteristic chutzpah, Gilbert Ryle tried to carry his ‘anti- intellectualist’crusade into the province oflogic, long taken to be one ofthe oppo- sition’s strongholds (see especially Ryle 1945, 1946/1971, 1950/2009). … Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 2 versions
Resources and courses M O’Donnell – Continuum companion to systemic functional …, 2009 – books.google.com … theory analysis hypothesis abduction description (scope) typological particular text register~ discourse~ text~ grammatical~ speech~(phonological) grammatics (stratum)(scope) induction deduction metalanguage architecture comparative morphological~ syntactic~ Page 241. … Related articles
[PDF] Applying Lakatos-style reasoning to AI problems [PDF] from ed.ac.uk A Pease, A Smaill, S Colton… – … Machines and the …, 2010 – homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk … One current direction in AI research is to focus on combining different reasoning styles such as deduction, induction, abduction, analogical reasoning … HRL is a multiagent dialogue system in which each agent has a copy of the theory formation system HR (Colton, 2002), which … Cited by 3 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions
[PDF] Analysis of affective expression in speech [PDF] from 128.232.0.20 T Sobol-Shikler – Computer Laboratory, 2009 – 128.232.0.20 … teaching system). Another course of response is to keep the knowledge as a cue for a more continuous interpretation, without changing the inference of longer-term expressions (for example, dialogue systems). Therefore, the … Cited by 6 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions
Qualitative modeling KD Forbus – Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2011 – Wiley Online Library Skip to Main Content. … Related articles – All 2 versions
[PDF] Explanation-aware Case-based Reasoning [PDF] from diva-portal.org MB Lillehaug – 2011 – ntnu.diva-portal.org Page 1. Master of Science in Computer Science June 2011 Anders Kofod-Petersen, IDI Submission date: Supervisor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Computer and Information Science Explanation-aware Case-based Reasoning … Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions
[PDF] Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department [PDF] from northwestern.edu E Tomai – 2009 – qrg.northwestern.edu … By isolating explicit points of ambiguity and using limited evidential abduction, this query-driven process can automatically identify the disambiguation choices that entail relevant interpretations. … By isolating explicit points of ambiguity and using limited evidential abduction, this … Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions
[BOOK] Cognition and pragmatics D Sandra, JO Östman… – 2009 – books.google.com … formalisms and frames 24 4.4 Rule-based formalisms 26 5. Linguistic symbol manipulation in semantics and pragmatics 27 5.1 Semantics 28 5.2 Knowledge and intentions 29 5.3 Utterances in context 30 5.4 Modeling the user 31 5.4.1 User modeling and dialog systems 31 5.4 … Cited by 1 – Related articles – Library Search – All 2 versions
Models of Forming an Opinion E Nissan – Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, …, 2012 – Springer … 7 Another example that befits updating, rather than revision, is when, in the series of messages from the Red Brigades while they were holding prisoner the Italian politician Aldo Moro (who was abducted on 16 March 1978 from his car in Rome, the five men of his escort having …
An incremental model of anaphora and reference resolution based on resource situations [PDF] from elanguage.net M Poesio… – Dialogue & Discourse, 2011 – elanguage.net … such as intention recognition or anaphora resolution; in PTT it is assumed that all aspects of utterance interpretation are defeasible, from lexical access to parsing and semantic composition, as already assumed in Hobbs’ interpretation as abduction framework (Hobbs et al. … Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 11 versions
[PDF] Implicature as an Interactive Process [PDF] from inria.fr L Benotti – 2010 – hal.inria.fr … 52 1.2.2 From philosophy to sociology: Politeness theory . . . . . 57 1.2.3 From philosophy to inference: Abduction . . . . . 59 1.2.4 From philosophy to dialogue systems: Speech acts . . . . . 60 1.3 Empirical analysis in situated conversation . . . . . … Cited by 8 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 6 versions
[BOOK] Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding E Ovchinnikova – 2012 – books.google.com … 77 4.3 Abduction for Natural Language Understanding . . . . . … Concerning natural language processing (NLP), this type of reasoning is intended to facilitate such applications as, for example, question answering, information extraction, and dialog systems. … Related articles
Cross-Disciplinary Reflections: Philosophical Robotics A Sloman – Cognitive Systems, 2010 – Springer … Unfortunately, it was not possible in the time available to meet these architectural requirements, except in restricted ad hoc fashion, though the dialogue system (Chapter 8) presupposed some of them, and the Explorer system (Chapter 10) used SLAM techniques to represent … Related articles – All 2 versions
L’implicature comme un Processus Interactif [PDF] from inria.fr L Benotti – 2010 – hal.inria.fr … 52 1.2.2 From philosophy to sociology: Politeness theory . . . . . 57 1.2.3 From philosophy to inference: Abduction . . . . . 59 1.2.4 From philosophy to dialogue systems: Speech acts . . . . . 60 1.3 Empirical analysis in situated conversation . . . . . … Related articles – All 4 versions
[BOOK] Virtual and Mixed Reality-New Trends: International Conference, Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, … R Shumaker – 2011 – books.google.com Page 1. Randall Shumaker (Ed.) Virtual and Mixed Reality New Trends International Conference, Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011 Held as Part of HCI International 2011 Orlando, FL, USA, July 2011, Proceedings, Part I 3artl HCI2011 INTERNATIONAL ¦0 Springer Page 2. … Related articles – Library Search
HMM-based speech synthesis using an acoustic glottal source model [PDF] from ed.ac.uk JP Cabral – 2011 – era.lib.ed.ac.uk … potential of development. Emerging applications, such as spoken dialogue systems, e-books, and computer games, demand expressive speech and high parametric flexibility from the speech syn- thesisers to control voice characteristics. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 2 versions
Solving conflicts in information merging by a flexible interpretation of atomic propositions S Schockaert… – Artificial Intelligence, 2011 – Elsevier Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 4 versions
[PDF] L’APPROCHE DIALECTIQUE PRAGMATIQUE DANS L’ANALYSE DES ARGUMENTS [PDF] from uqam.ca S BEAUPRÉ – 2009 – archipel.uqam.ca … Nous avons appliqué la théorie de la dialectique pragmatique à une vraie discussion. Le dialogue qui a été analysé est de type critique – type dans lequel les raisonnements basés sur l’abduction et la présomption sont permis. … Related articles – View as HTML
The Algorithmic Expansion of Stories [PDF] from queensu.ca CM Thomas – 2010 – catspaw.its.queensu.ca … 10 Page 25. knowledge bases, may perform tasks based upon the content of SEs. For example, a spoken-dialogue system is representative of the loop involving an NLU, NLG and various knowledge bases. A human may ask the system a series of questions in a … Related articles – Library Search – All 4 versions