Modeling users in a web based Information Retrieval System

In this paper we present a dialogue system for a web interface that is able to maintain a conversation with an user who poses questions about the existence of Portuguese Attorney General texts with some particular characteristics. The proposed system is able to handle ambiguities in the user questions, clarifications made by the user and the situations where the user starts parallel discourses by introducing incompatible characteristics in its questions.

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