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Dialogue systems are often regarded as being tedious and inflexible. We believe that one reason is rigid and inadaptable system utterances. A good dialogue system should automatically choose a formulation that reflects the user’s expectations. However, current dialogue system development environments only allow the definition of questions with unchangeable formulations. In this paper we present a new approach to the generation of system questions by only defining basic concepts. This is the basis for realising adaptive, user-tailored, and human-like system questions in dialogue systems.
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Berg, M.M., Isard, A., Moore, J.D. (2013). An OpenCCG-Based Approach to Question Generation from Concepts. In: Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., Vadera, S. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_4
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