Newsgroups: ont.events
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!clarke
From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: U of Toronto AI seminar, January 12
Message-ID: <8812222054.AA03853@steeles.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
Distribution: ont
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 88 15:54:18 EST
Expires: Jan 13 1989


      AI  SEMINAR - Thursday, January 12, 11 a.m.  in  Room  SF 1105
         (SF = Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Road)

                               Ronan Reilly
                        Educational Research Centre
                       St. Patrick's College, Dublin

       "Building a naturalistic natural-language dialogue interface"

In this talk I will give an overview of the CFID project, describing its
underlying philosophy, and how this has motivated various implementation
decisions.  An important emphasis of the project has been on a corpus-based
approach to grammar development.  The initial stages of the project have
involved the gathering of human dialogues in a simulated database-query en-
vironment.  In these studies we were particularly interested in discovering
the extent and nature of miscommunication in keyboard dialogue, and in how
participants detect and recover from various types of miscommunication.  I
will discuss our findings in this regard.  I will also discuss the grammar
development and knowledge repesentation tools that have evolved to meet the
particular needs of the project.
-- 
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
BITNET,CSNET: clarke@csri.toronto.edu     CDNNET: clarke@csri.toronto.cdn
UUCP: {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke

