ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Vigsø, Denmark May 30 - June 2, 1995

Which Representation for a Proper Treatment of Referring Expressions in a Man-Machine Multimodal Dialogue

Nadia Bellalem, Laurent Romary, Daniel Schang

CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France

This paper aims at illustrating the notion of reference context which seems to be essential for any general view of reference to a spatial environment wether this is done in a demonstrative (i.e. NL+gesture) or direct way. After a brief description of the task structure and the perceptive representation which may be needed for the interpretation of the corresponding expressions, we validate the computation of spatial and gestural expressions on several examples in the context of a specific application.

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Bibliographic reference.  Bellalem, Nadia / Romary, Laurent / Schang, Daniel (1995): "Which representation for a proper treatment of referring expressions in a man-machine multimodal dialogue", In SDS-1995, 61-64.