Generic command interpretation algorithms for conversational agents

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mazuel, Laurent^; | Sabouret, Nicolas

Affiliations: Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris6 (LIP6), 104 av du Président Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France

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Abstract: This paper focuses on human-machine communication with intelligent agents, it proposes a generic architecture with an algorithm for natural language (NL) command interpretation which makes it easy to define different applications using the description and domains of the different agents, since all that is required is their respective codes and domain ontologies. There are two classical approaches for NL command interpretation: the top-down approach, which relies on the syntactical constraints of the agent's model, and the bottom-up approach which relies on the set of the agent's possible actions. The present work combines the two in a new bottom-up based algorithm that makes use of agent's constraints. The three algorithms are then compared, and results show that the combined approach gives best results.

Keywords: Human-agent communication, introspection, domain ontology, top-down and bottom-up approach, comparative evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/WIA-2008-0129

Journal: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 43-57, 2008