Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig, Peter Reiß, Bernhard Schiemann, Tobias Seutter
Abstract: Multi-Agent systems follow a highly abstract programming paradigm. Because of this abstraction level, behaviours of the participants are not always clearly reproducible for humans. In this...
The general goal in implementing dialogue systems is in most cases to provide some kind of human-computer-interface for rational interaction. For that purpose, an approach is required which enables...
Combining the Practical Syllogism and Planning in Dialogue (2008)
Günther Görz, Er Huber, Bernd Ludwig, Peter Reiss
We present a dialogue model which relates discourse relations and intentions by reasoning about pragmatic capabilities of dialogue particpants. For that purpose, planning approaches for discourse and...
for Situated, Individualized, and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction (2008)
Bernd Ludwig, Heinrich Niemann, Martin Klarner, Peter Reiß, Günther Görz
In this paper, we present some key issues of our dialogue system for spoken language 1 which has been designed to enable quick configurability to various applications and to apply deep syntactic and...
Model Generation for Generalized Quantifiers via Answer Set Programming (2008)
Abstract. For the semantic evaluation of natural language sentences, in particular those containing generalized quantifiers, we subscribe to the generate and test methodology to produce models of...
CONALD: The Configurable Plan-Based Dialogue System 1 What is CONALD? (2008)
Bernd Ludwig, Peter Reiss, Günther Görz
CONALD is a spoken language dialogue system system 1 which enables the interaction between users and a technical system in dynamic environments. The primary goal of its design is to achieve quick...
Research on Architectures for Integrated Speech/Language Systems in Verbmobil (2007)
Günther Görz, Marcus Kesseler, Jorg Spilker, Hans Weber
The German joint research project Verbmobil (VM) aims at the development of a speech to speech translation system. This paper reports on research done in our group which belongs to Verbmobil 's...
This paper reports on an implementation of Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory for the Connection Machine. In order to accomplish a modular and adaptive software library we applied a plain...
The Digital Behaim Globe (1492) (2007)
The goal of most hypermedia systems is to open up complex information spaces through the use of associative networks of nodes containing texts, images, and acoustic signals. The power of such...
Ingrid Fischer, Bernd Geistert, Günther Görz
Introduction In our institute, a student project aiming at the construction of a prototypical natural language processing (NLP) system is being carried out. Its fundamental goal is the modular design...
Andreas Turk, Andreas Turk, Günther Görz, Gunther Gorz
: This paper reports on an implementation of Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory for the Connection Machine and its application. In order to achieve a maximum of modularity in a highly adaptive...
An Anytime Protocol for Speech Parsing (2007)
This paper presents a protocol that allows for the easy implementation of "anytime algorithms". After giving a more precise definition of what an anytime algorithm is, we shortly discuss...
Modeling X.509 Certificate Policies Using Description Logics (2007)
Volker Haarslev, Carsten Lutz, Ralf Möller, Daniela Berardi, Diego Calvanese, Sebastian Br, ...
Recently, a growing interest in description logics and their applications can be observed. This is mainly due to the development of very expressive description logics and optimized description logic...
Corega Tabs: Incremental Semantic Composition (2007)
Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig
In parsing natural language, incremental semantics composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verbal...
Corega tabs: Mapping semantics onto pragmatics (2002)
Bernd Ludwig, Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz
In this paper, we outline our approach to mapping domain independent semantic representations to extensional statement specific to a given application. Fur this purpose, we exploit the equivalence...
Corega Tabs: Incremental Semantic Composition (2002)
Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig
In parsing natural language, incremental semantics composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verbal...
Speech Dialogue Systems: A "Pragmatics-First" Approach to Rational Interaction (2002)
Günther Görz, Kerstin Bücher, Yves Forkl, Martin Klarner, Bernd Ludwig
Modelling rational dialogues on the basis of Finite-State Automata has shown to be of limited use when natural speech behaviour and dynamic adaptation to new domains are an issue. To enable such a...
How Can Theory Contribute to the Construction of Scalable Speech Dialogue Systems? (2002)
We consider theoretical aspects from linguistics and logic for contributions to the problem of system scalability. For the linguistic part,...
Context and Content in Dialogue Systems (2000)
Bernd Ludwig, Martin Klarner, Günther Görz
The paper outlines our dialogue model which comprises utterance analysis, processing and generation in a DRT framework. We present and discuss in detail an example from the EMBASSI domain 1 . 1...
Processing Self Corrections in a speech to speech system (2000)
Jörg Spilker, Martin Klarner, Günther Görz
Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for any spoken language system. We present a framework to detect and correct...
Processing Self-Corrections in a Speech-to-Speech System (2000)
Jörg Spilker, Martin Klarner, Günther Görz
. Self-repairs are a frequent phenomenon in spontaneous speech. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is therefore indispensable for any spoken language system. We present a framework for...
In natural language technology up to now most projects were based on either logical and linguistic methods or they were strictly based on stochastic techniques alone borrowed from pattern...
Detection And Correction Of Speech Repairs In Word Lattices (1999)
Jörg Spilker, Hans Weber, Günther Görz
Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for every spoken language system. We present a framework to detect and correct...
An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse (1999)
Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann
In the present paper, we describe a theoretical approach to the interpretation of utterances in spoken language dialogue systems. We also hint at our implementation of a prototype dialogue system...
Modelling Users, Intentions, and Structure in Spoken Dialog (1998)
Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann
We outline how utterances in dialogs can be interpreted using a partial first order logic. We exploit the capability of this logic to talk about the truth status of formulae to define a notion of...
Combining Expression and Content in Domains for Dialog Managers (1998)
Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann
We present work in progress on abstracting dialog managers from their domain in order to implement a dialog manager development tool which takes (among other data) a domain description as input and...
User Models, Dialog Structure, and Intentions in Spoken Dialog (1998)
Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann, Bernd Ludwig, Bernd Ludwig
We outline how utterances in dialogs can be interpreted using a partial first order logic. We exploit the capability of this logic to talk about the truth status of formulae to define a notion of...
Combining Expression and Content in Domains for Dialog Managers (1998)
Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann
We present work in progress on abstracting dialog managers from their domain in order to implement a dialog manager development tool which takes (among other data) a domain description as input and...
User Models, Dialog Structure, and Intentions in Spoken Dialog (1998)
Bernd Ludwig, Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Gunther Gorz, Heinrich Niemann, Heinrich Niemann
this paper In this paper we present empirical evidence that in spoken dialogs all approaches outlined in the last section are important for a general model of dialog and robust dialog managers. We...
On The Use Of Prosody In A Speech-To-Speech Translator (1997)
Volker Strom, Anja Elsner, Wolfgang Hess, Walter Kasper, Alexandra Klein, Hans Ulrich Krieger, ...
In this paper a speech-to-speech translator from German to English is presented. Beside the traditional processing steps it takes advantage of acoustically detected prosodic phrase boundaries and...
Parsing N Best Trees from a Word Lattice (1997)
Hans Weber, Jörg Spilker, Günther Görz
. This article describes a probabilistic context free grammar approximation method for unification grammars. In order to produce good results, the method is combined with an N best parsing extension...
Research on Architectures for Integrated Speech/Language Systems in Verbmobil (1996)
Görz, Günther, Kesseler, Marcus, Spilker, Jörg, Weber, Hans
The German joint research project Verbmobil (VM) aims at the development of a speech to speech translation system. This paper reports on research done in our group which belongs to Verbmobil's...
Integrating Knowledge Representation into a Multimedia Information System (1995)
The goal of many hypermedia systems, which are a synthesis of hypertext and multimedia systems, is to open complex information spaces through the use of associative networks with nodes containing...
Robust Parsing of Spoken Dialogue Using Contextual Knowledge and Recognition Probabilities (1995)
Günther Görz, Gerhard Hanrieder
In this paper we describe the linguistic processing component of a spoken dialogue system. The task of this word graph parser is to find the most plausible sequence of word hypotheses in the input...
Chart-based Incremental Semantics Construction with Anaphora Resolution Using λ-DRT (1995)
Ingrid Fischer, Bernd Geistert, Günther Görz
Introduction In our institute, a student project aiming at the construction of a prototypical natural language processing (NLP) system is being carried out. Its fundamental goal is the modular design...
Anytime Algorithms for Speech Parsing? (1994)
This paper discusses to which extent the concept of "anytime algorithms" can be applied to parsing algorithms with feature unification. We first try to give a more precise definition of...
Towards the Integration of Functions, Relations and Types in an AI Programming Language (1994)
Rolf Backofen, Lutz Euler, Dfki Gmbh, Günther Görz, Ab Nats
This paper describes the design and implementation of the programming language PCLife. This language integrates the functional and the logic-oriented programming style and feature types supporting...
Abstraction as a Fundamental Concept in Teaching Computer Science (1993)
ion as a Fundamental Concept in Teaching Computer Science G unther G orz University of Erlangen-Nurnberg Informatik (Computer Science) VIII Am Weichselgarten 9 D-91058 ERLANGEN E-mail:...
BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation (1991)
Iman Thabet, Bernd Ludwig, Frank-peter Schweinberger, Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz
In natural language processing, incremental semantic composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verb...
Distributed Disjunctions for LIFE (1991)
Rolf Backofen, Lutz Euler, Dfki Gmbh, Günther Görz, Informatik Ki
PC-Life, a dialect of the LIFE language designed by Ait-Kaci, extends the original design by some features, the most important of which are distributed disjunctions. LIFE integrates the functional...
BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation (1991)
Iman Thabet, Bernd Ludwig, Frank-peter Schweinberger, Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz
In natural language processing, incremental semantic composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verb...
BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation (1991)
Iman Thabet, Bernd Ludwig, Frank-peter Schweinberger, Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz
In natural language processing, incremental semantic composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verb...
Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig
In parsing natural language, incremental semantics composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verbal...
An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse
Bernd Ludwig, Günther Görz, Heinrich Niemann, Heinrich Niemann Forwiss
In the present paper, we describe a theoretical approach to the interpretation of utterances in spoken language dialogue systems. The paper presents a decidable version of Discourse Representation...