DISCO---An HPSG-based NLP System and its Application for Appointment Scheduling (Project Note)

Uszkoreit, Hans; Backofen, Rolf; Busemann, Stephan; Diagne, Abdel Kader; Hinkelman, Elizabeth A.; Kasper, Walter; Kiefer, Bernd; Krieger, Hans-Ulrich; Netter, Klaus; Neumann, Guenter; Oepen, Stephan; Spackman, Stephen P.

DISCO---An HPSG-based NLP System and its Application for Appointment Scheduling (Project Note)

Authors

Hinkelman, Elizabeth A.

Description

The natural language system DISCO is described. It combines o a powerful and flexible grammar development system; o linguistic competence for German including morphology, syntax and semantics; o new methods for linguistic performance modelling on the basis of high-level competence grammars; o new methods for modelling multi-agent dialogue competence; o an interesting sample application for appointment scheduling and calendar management.