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User modelling is becoming recognized as a key issue in the design of cooperative dialogue systems. Assumptions about the beliefs, goals and plans of the user are seen as necessary prerequisites for a system to be capable of exhibiting user-oriented dialogue behaviour. This paper gives a survey of VIE-DPM, the user model in the natural language dialogue system VIE-LANG. In VIE-DPM, specific kinds of inferences about the user’s beliefs and wants are generated from his natural-1anguage input to the system, as well as from the system’s replies to the user. These assumptions are stored in a comprehensive representation system and can be used for supporting other components of VIE-LANG.
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Kobsa, A. (1985). VIE-DPM: A User Model in a Natural-Language Dialogue System. In: Laubsch, J. (eds) GWAI-84. Informatik Fachberichte, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46546-8_11
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