On Intuitive Dialogue-based Communication and Instinctive Dialogue Initiative

Maximes of conversation and the resulting (multimodal) constraints may be very much related to instinctive computing. At least, one could argue that cognitive instincts and (meta)cognitive dialogue strategies use the same class of actual sensory input. In my model, however, the dialogue partner's (instinctive?) competence arises from adaptable models he learns from the environment. For example, some information resources are more reliable than other, some people always or never tell the truth, which affects the dialogue action models---over time.

Bio

Dr. Daniel Sonntag is a senior research scientist at the Intelligent User Interface Department (IUI) at DFKI. He received a doctor's degree in computer science and a diploma (Msc.) in computational linguistics from Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Daniel has worked in natural language processing, text mining, interface design, and dialogue systems for over 10 years and has been affiliated with DFKI, Xtramind Technologies, and Daimler/Chrysler Research. His current research interests include multimodal interface design, ontology-based question answering, and semantic search engines. At the moment he is working on a situation-aware dialogue shell for semantic access to media and services in the THESEUS research program.