Speaker-independent context update rules for dialogue management.
Samson de Jager, Nick Wright, Alistair Knott · 2003
This paper describes a dialogue management system in which an attempt is made to factor out a declarative theory of context updates in dialogue from a procedural theory of generating and interpreting utterances in dialogue. 1 Background: declarative and procedural resources for text processing In computational linguistics, a very useful distinction can be drawn between declarative models of language, which specify what constitutes a ‘correct’ or ‘proper ’ sentence or discourse, and procedural models, which specify how a proper sentence or discourse can be interpreted or generated. This distinction