Topics in SCHISMA dialogues
Joris Hulstijn, R. Steetskamp, Hugo ter Doest, Stan van de Burgt, Anton Nijholt · University of Twente Research Information · 1996
An important part of dialogue management in a dialogue system is topic management: The system has to keep track of topic aspects (current topic, context, obligations, ...) in order to be able to resolve ambiguities and to respond in a cooperative and sensible way. In the schisma project, we are developing a system that takes part in a conversation about theater performances and is able to make ticket reservations. In this paper we discuss several techniques for topic management that we developed and tested this year.