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Tracking the Dialogue

In the first phase of VERBMOBIL we were most of all concerned with time expressions and inferences to find out the speakers attitude towards those expressions (accept, reject, uptake) [Maier1996, Alexandersson et al. 1997]. In the new domain we have to deal with more complex suggestions, e.g. flights, hotel reservations, spare-time activities in the evening. Still, the limited domain and the final goal of devising a summary/script lets us make certain assumptions about how the incoming objects could look like.





Jan Alexandersson
Thu Nov 11 15:15:06 MET 1999