How near are we to creating fifth generation computers capable of conducting conversations with untrained and casual users in their own language? In this book Michael McTear addresses the advances computer technology would have to make before we could produce such machines. He assesses what aspects of natural language processing computers cannot readily cope with, and provides an introductory survey of linguistic, AI and psychological attempts to model the use of language in dialogue. He provides an overview of recent research carried out in dialogue modelling, discusses the real-life difficulties any model would have to overcome, and concludes with speculation on future directions for research.
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Höhe: 230 mm
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978-0-631-14009-2 (9780631140092)
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Preface ; 1. The articulate computer: fact or fiction? ; 2. Natural language processing: some preliminaries ; 3. Parsing natural language ; 4. Some early natural language systems. ; 5. SHRDLU: the blocks world ; 6. Knowledge structures: events, goals and plans ; 7. Knowledge of discourse structure ; 8. Modelling dialogue ; 9. Communication failure in dialogue ; 10. Humans and computers: the way ahead ; References ; Indexes
