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An Object-oriented Dialogue System for Swedish1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Lars Ahrenberg
Lars Ahrenberg
Affiliation:
Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
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Abstract

This paper describes the analysis component of a natural language dialogue system called FALIN. The most important features of the system are its modularity and the combination of an object-oriented semantics with a constraint-based grammar formalism. I also illustrate how constraints in the form of descriptor schemata can be used to capture general correspondences between syntactic and semantic structure and argue that the contribution of contextual factors to interpretation to some extent can be handled within the same framework.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 11 , Issue 1-2 , June 1988 , pp. 3 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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