Re: Introductions ...

Thanks Dave,

That sounds like a great idea. A vendor/client relationship has some
well-defined communication patterns, and lends itself to be modelled
algorithmically.

Speaking of modelling dialogue, I've studied a concrete example of a
chatbot that sells cakes [1] by Dr. Morbini (back when he worked at the
University of Southern California).
I've rewritten some of the dialogue in DMScript [2], and can further
convert DMScript to chunks easily, since both share the concept of chaining
rules to resolve a goal.

I'm considering writing that cake-vendor scenario using chunks for the NLD
demo in the GitHub repo. What do you think?

[1]
https://github.com/fmorbini/jmNL/blob/846dfebc339ea5b30487ef483fe50c8b151a0b05/resources/characters/CakeVendor/dm/textFormat/policy.txt
[2]
https://github.com/conversational-interfaces/dms-scratchpad/blob/master/examples/cakevendor.dms


On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:05 AM Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi Nishant,
>
> Your help would be welcome in respect to work on natural language
> dialogues. I am proposing to first work on a demo where the language usage
> and meaning is clear and well understood, in this case for the dialogue
> involved in ordering a meal at a restaurant. This will allow us to work on
> representing the meaning and the semantic processing needed to support the
> dialogue, including disambiguation of word senses, and finding the most
> appropriate bindings for prepositions, pronouns etc.
>
> Computational linguists have emphasised linguistic processing over
> semantics, but with a cognitive model we can redress the balance, and
> simplify the lexicon accordingly, along with reducing the amount of
> statistical data commonly associated with statistical parsing.  You can see
> more at:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/cogai/blob/master/demos/nld/README.md
>
> Note that further demos would look at how cognitive agents can mimic human
> abilities to learn new language patterns from small numbers of examples.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
> W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things
>
>
>
>

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