User Models in Dialog Systems /

User models have recently attracted much research interest in the field of artificial intelligence dialog systems. It has become evident that a flexible user-oriented dialog behavior of such systems can be realized only if the system disposes of a model of the user, containing assumptions about the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kobsa, Alfred
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wahlster, Wolfgang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1989.
Series:Symbolic computation. Artificial intelligence.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Survey of User Modeling: User Models in Dialog Systems. Stereotypes and User Modeling. A Taxonomy of Beliefs and Goals for User Models in Dialog Systems
  • Building User Models: KNOME: Modeling What the User Knows in UC. Detecting and Responding to Plan-Oriented Misconceptions. Plan Recognition and Its Use in Understanding Dialog. Learning the User's Language: A Step Towards Automated Creation of User Models
  • Exploiting User Models: The Use of Explicit User Models in a Generation System for Tailoring Answers to the User's Level of Expertise. Highlighting a User Model to Respond to Misconceptions. But What Will the Listener Think? Belief Ascription and Image Maintenance in Dialog. Incorporating User Models into Expert Systems for Educational Diagnosis
  • Shortcomings of Current Models, Prospects for the Future: Realism About User Modeling. User Models and Conversational Settings: Modeling the User's Wants. Student Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Implications for User Modeling. GUMS
  • A General User Modeling Shell
  • Appendices: Bibliography. List of Contributors. Subject Index.