2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Dialogue Management for Conversational Case-Based Reasoning
Authors : Karl Branting, James Lester, Bradford Mott
Published in: Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Two key objectives of conversational case-based reasoning (CCBR) systems are (1) eliciting case facts in a manner that minimizes the user’s burden in terms of resources such as time, information cost, and cognitive load, and (2) integrating CBR with other problem solving modalities. This paper proposes an architecture that addresses both these goals by integrating CBR with a discourse-oriented dialogue engine. The dialogue engine determines when CBR or other problem-solving techniques are needed to achieve pending discourse goals. Conversely, the CBR component has the full resources of a dialogue engine to handle topic changes, interruptions, clarification questions by either the user or the system, and other speech acts that arise in problem-solving dialogues.