Citation: V. Di Lecce, M. Calabrese, D. Soldo, and A. Quarto, "Dialogue-Oriented Interface for Linguistic Human-Computer Interaction: a Chat-based Application", Proc. of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS 2010), Taranto, Italy, 6-8 September 2010, pp. 103-108, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5906-3
Abstract: This work presents a dialogue-oriented interface enabling human-computer interaction at the linguistic level. In the proposed setting, the user asks for system services in natural language by means of a linguistic interface based on a chat. When user requests are ambiguous with respect to the set of possible interpretations, the system instantiates a dialogue with the user. In this case, the system provides hints on how to reformulate the query until a valid form is reached; this feed-back makes the dialogue-oriented interaction process resemble an ordinary chat (in the restricted domain of system services). The popularity of the chat as a synchronous communication instrument lets our proposal be suitable for a great variety of applications.
Keyword: human computer interaction; dialogue-oriented interface; WordNet; disambiguation; chatbot