Uncertainty Management in Dialogue Systems

Dialogue systems find more and more applications but the scientific im- provements face difficulties to be trans- ferred into the dialog technologies. France Telecom R&D is designing a new architecture based on uncertainty management in dialogue. Dialogue con- straints lead to define a Logical Framework for Probabilistic Reasoning (LFPR) which results are close to the ones of the Evidence Theory and the Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System (ATMS). The paper eventually compares it to the Theory of Hints of Kohlas and Monney.

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