%0 Book %1 BoschBouma2011 %B Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing %C Heidelberg %D 2011 %E van den Bosch, Antal %E Bouma, Gosse %I Springer %K 01614 103 springer book ai language processing multimodal interaction user interface answer dialog %R 10.1007/978-3-642-17525-1 %T Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering %X This book is the result of a group of researchers from different disciplines asking themselves one question: what does it take to develop a computer interface that listens, talks, and can answer questions in a domain? First, obviously, it takes specialized modules for speech recognition and synthesis, human interaction management (dialogue, input fusion, andmultimodal output fusion), basic question understanding, and answer finding. While all modules are researched as independent subfields, this book describes the development of state-of-the-art modules and their integration into a single, working application capable of answering medical (encyclopedic) questions such as 'How long is a person with measles contagious?' or 'How can I prevent RSI?'. The contributions in this book, which grew out of the IMIX project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, document the development of this system, but also address more general issues in natural language processing, such as the development of multidimensional dialogue systems, the acquisition of taxonomic knowledge from text, answer fusion, sequence processing for domain-specific entity recognition, and syntactic parsing for question answering. Together, they offer an overview of the most important findings and lessons learned in the scope of the IMIX project, making the book of interest to both academic and commercial developers of human-machine interaction systems in Dutch or any other language. %@ 978-3-642-17524-4

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