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Semantic filtering by inference on domain knowledge in spoken dialogue systems
Afzal Ballim, Vincenzo Pallotta
General natural dialogue processing requires large amounts of domain knowledge as well as linguistic knowledge in order to ensure acceptable coverage and understanding. There are s…
A knowledge-based approach to semi-automatic annotation of multimedia documents via user adaptation
Afzal Ballim, Nastaran Fatemi, Hatem Ghorbel +1
Current approaches to the annotation process focus on annotation schemas, languages for annotation, or are very application driven. In this paper it is proposed that a more flexibl…
Robust Dialogue Understanding in HERALD
Vincenzo Pallotta, Afzal Ballim
We tackle the problem of robust dialogue processing from the perspective of language engineering. We propose an agent-oriented architecture that allows us a flexible way of composi…
The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language dialogue systems
Afzal Ballim, Vincenzo Pallotta
In this paper we summarized a framework for designing grammar-based procedure for the automatic extraction of the semantic content from spoken queries. Starting with a case study a…
Semantic robust parsing for noun extraction from natural language queries
Afzal Ballim, Vincenzo Pallotta
This paper describes how robust parsing techniques can be fruitful applied for building a query generation module which is part of a pipelined NLP architecture aimed at process nat…