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Ontology-based framework for a multi-domain spoken dialogue system.

Authors :
Sidi Yakoub, Mohammed
Selouani, Sid Ahmed
Source :
Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing; Feb2024, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p1543-1565, 23p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Multi-domain spoken dialogue is a challenging field where the objective of the most proposed ideas is to mimic the human–human dialogue. This paper proposes to tackle the domain selection problem in the context of multi-domain spoken dialogue as a set theory problem to resolve. First, we built each dialogue domain as an ontology following an architecture with some rules to respect. Second, each ontology is considered as a set and its concepts are the elements. Third, an ontology-based classifier is used to map the user sentence into a set of ontologies concepts and to generate an intersection between these concepts. Finally, a new turn analysis and domain selection algorithm is proposed to infer the intended domain from the user sentence using the intersection set and three techniques, namely Domain Rewards, Dominant Concept, and Current Domain. To evaluate the proposed approach, a corpus of 120 simulated dialogues was built to cover four application domains. In our experiment, the assessment of the system is performed by considering all possibilities of a natural verbal interaction where a changing of semantic context occurs during the dialogue. The obtained results show that the system accuracy reaches a satisfactory performance of 83.13% while the average number of turns by dialogue is 6.79. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
18685137
Volume :
15
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
175830111
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0625-y