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InPro is the main project of the lab. The aim of the project is to build a formal, computational model of two key aspects of human dialogue interaction management: turn taking and feedback giving. The model will be derived from an empirical study of corpora of human–human interaction, and will be implemented within a framework for dialogue management in general (including dialogue content management).
To achieve this, the project will develop novel techniques for incremental processing in dialogue systems, including incremental parsing, dialogue act recognition, and dialogue content management. The availability of such models and techniques will be an important step towards the simulation of natural dialogue behaviour in computer systems. On a more technical level, the project will contribute towards a long-standing goal of computational linguistics, namely to combine statistical or probabilistic techniques (here needed for projection of upcoming decision points) with symbolic techniques like logics (here needed for the dialogue content management proper) and use their complementary strengths.
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