Ontologies and adaptivity in dialogue for question answering / Daniel Sonntag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonntag, Daniel.

Series:

Studies on the Semantic Web ; v. 4.

Studies on the Semantic Web, 1868-1158 ; Volume 004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantic Web.

Dialogue analysis.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : IOS Press : AKA, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Question answering (QA) has become one of the fastest growing topics in computational linguistics and information access. To advance research in the area of dialogue-based question answering, we propose a combination of methods from different scientific fields (i.e., Information Retrieval, Dialogue Systems, Semantic Web, and Machine Learning). This book sheds light on adaptable dialogue-based question answering. We demonstrate the technical and computational feasibility of the proposed ideas, the introspective methods in particular, by beginning with an extensive introduction to the dialogical

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Prologue; Part I. Introduction and Scientific Background; Chapter 1. Introduction; Motivation - Why this book?; Who should read this book?; SmartWeb System; Roadmap; Chapter 2. Scientific Background; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems; Information Retrieval; Question Answering; Ontologies; Metacognition and Introspection; Machine Learning; Standards; Related Systems; Summary; Part II. Ontologies and Dialogue-Based QA; Chapter 3. Ontology-Based Dialogue Processing; Integration Framework; Semantic Web Knowledge Structures

A Pattern Language for Interaction Design Related Research; Summary; Chapter 4. Dialogue Management; Dialogue Constraints; Reaction and Presentation Manager; Summary; Part III. Introspection and Dialogue Adaptation; Chapter 5. Introspective Mechanism; Metadata Management; Introspective Control; Learner Pool; Verification of Introspective Methods; Summary; Chapter 6. Adaptable Dialogue Management; Dimensions of Adaptivity; Complex Decision Making Process; Dialogue Information State; Related Research; Summary; Chapter 7. Evaluation; Evaluation Methodology; Evaluation Types; Data Characteristics

Evaluation Measures Data Sets and the Groundwork hypothesis; Introspection and the Mining hypothesis; Introspection and the Adaptation hypothesis; Introspection and the Feedback hypothesis; Dialogue Level Integration; Summary; Chapter 8. Further Applications; Application Potentials; Semantic Mediation in THESEUS; Prototype Integration; Semantic Navigation; Summary; Epilogue; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61499-338-6

OCLC:

868068744