Second VENACO Workshop The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy September 16-20, 1991

Referring in a Multimodal Environment: From NL to Designation

Bertrand Gaiffe, Laurent Romary, Jean-Marie Pierrel

CRIN (Centre de Recherche en informatique de Nancy), Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France

We intend to put forward In this presentation several problems related to the design of man-machine multimodal dialogues. More precisely, we will tackle the issue of referring thanks to different communication modes such as Natural Language and a designation mode (shortly speaking : Designation). Our research in the Dialogue team at the GRIN has first been motivated by our participation in the Multiworks Esprit II project, which has lead us to think about the design of a natural interface for a Multimedia editor : Multicard (Bull)

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Bibliographic reference.  Gaiffe, Bertrand / Romary, Laurent / Pierrel, Jean-Marie (1991): "Referring in a multimodal environment: from NL to designation", In SMMD-1991, 161-164.