Some issues in Dialogue-Based Question-Answering
Arne Jönsson, Magnus Merkel · 2003
We present on-going work on how to combine a multimodal dialogue system with techniques from information extraction and question-answering systems. A first combined system including both dialogue features and information extraction (BirdQuest) is presented. We conclude by listing a number of issues for further research. Combining dialogue and document processing In the field of Question Answering, Information extraction (IE) techniques have been used successfully when it comes to handling simple factoid questions, but the Q&A approach has yet not reached the level of sophistication for handling connected dialogue as is present in dialogue systems tailored to background systems with structured data. Dialogue capabilities allow for more precise formulation of