Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS'03) September 5-8, 2003 Göteborg, Sweden

In Dialogue with a Desktop Calculator: A Concurrent Stream Processing Approach to Building Simple Conversational Agents

Torbjörn Lager

Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University, Sweden

Human spontaneous face-to-face conversations are characterized by phenomena such as turn-taking, feedback, sounds of hesitation and repairs. A simple and highly modular stream-based approach to natural language processing is proposed that attempts to deal with such things. A basic version of the model has been implemented in the Oz programming language.

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Bibliographic reference.  Lager, Torbjörn (2003): "In dialogue with a desktop calculator: A concurrent stream processing approach to building simple conversational agents", In DiSS'03, 59-62.