Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication

Piwek, Paul; Hardcastle, David and Power, Richard (2007). Dialogue Games for Crosslingual Communication. In: Proceedings of DECALOG, The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 1 May - 30 Jun 2007, University of Trento, Italy.

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Abstract

We describe a novel approach to crosslingual dialogue that supports highly accurate communication of semantically complex content between people who do not speak the same language. The approach is introduced through an implemented application that covers the same ground as the chapter of a conventional phrase book for food shopping. We position the approach with respect to dialogue systems and Machine Translation-based approaches to crosslingual dialogue. The current work is offered as a first step towards the innovative use of dialogue theories for the enhancement of human–human dialogue.