Structure of Task Oriented Dialogs

Citation

Deutsch, B. G. (1974). The structure of task oriented dialogs. SRI International Menlo Park United States.

Abstract

The discourse and task information in task oriented dialogs and their use in a speech understanding system are discussed in this paper. The results of analyzing some task oriented dialogs are given. A preliminary model of the structure of these dialogs and heuristics for building and using it in a speech understanding system are presented.


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