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An effective solution to the problem of extending a dialogue system to new knowledge domains requires a clear separation between the knowledge and the system: as ontologies are used to conceptualize information, they can be used as a means to improve the separation between the dialogue system and the domain information. This paper presents the development of an ontology for the cooking domain, to be integrated in a dialog system. The ontology comprehends four main modules covering the key concepts of the cooking domain – actions, food, recipes, and utensils – and three auxiliary modules – units and measures, equivalencies and plate types.
This paper has been partially supported by Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informaçäo – ISCTE and by FCT project DIGA – POSI/PLP/41319/2001.
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Ribeiro, R., Batista, F., Pardal, J.P., Mamede, N.J., Pinto, H.S. (2006). Cooking an Ontology. In: Euzenat, J., Domingue, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11861461_23
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