Linked Data Integration for Semantic Dialogue and Backend Access

A dialogue system for answering user questions in natural speech presents one of the main achievements of contemporary interaction-based AI technology. Modern dialogue frameworks function as middleware between the interface component and the backend where the answers to the user questions are stored in heterogeneous formats. We implemented an interface to linked data sources as part of a complex natural language understanding and semantic retrieval process, thereby integrating the querying and answering task into a common framework. The semantic backend system integrates multiple linked data sources to allow for an advanced multimodal question answering (QA) dialogue.

[1]  Deborah L. McGuinness,et al.  Toward establishing trust in adaptive agents , 2008, IUI '08.

[2]  J. V. Kuppevelt,et al.  Advances in natural multimodal dialogue systems , 2005 .

[3]  Daniel Sonntag,et al.  Applications of an Ontology Engineering Methodology , 2010, AAAI Spring Symposium: Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence.

[4]  H. Kirchmann,et al.  SmartKom : Symmetric Multimodality in an Adaptive and Reusable Dialogue Shell , 2003 .

[5]  Gobinda G. Chowdhury,et al.  Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential , 2004 .

[6]  BizerChristian.  The Emerging Web of Linked Data , 2009 .

[7]  Norbert Reithinger,et al.  SmartWeb Handheld - Multimodal Interaction with Ontological Knowledge Bases and Semantic Web Services , 2007, Artifical Intelligence for Human Computing.

[8]  Ashwani Kumar,et al.  Miamm — A Multimodal Dialogue System Using Haptics , 2005 .

[9]  Ralf Engel.  SPIN : A Semantic Parser for Spoken Dialog Systems , 2006 .

[10]  Daniel Sonntag,et al.  Design and Implementation of Combined Mobile and Touchscreen-based Multimodal Web 3.0 Interfaces , 2009, IC-AI.

[11]  Sören Auer,et al.  The emerging web of linked data , 2011, ISWSA '11.

[12]  Sharon L. Oviatt,et al.  Ten myths of multimodal interaction , 1999, Commun. ACM.

[13]  Roberto Pieraccini,et al.  Where do we go from here? Research and Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems , 2005, SIGDIAL.

[14]  Daniel Sonntag,et al.  Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering , 2010, Studies on the Semantic Web.

[15]  Eyal Oren,et al.  Sindice.com: Weaving the Open Linked Data , 2007, ISWC/ASWC.