The use of natural language interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) is
undergoing intense study through dedicated scientific and industrial research. The latest …

Dialogue systems have become recently essential in our life. Their use is getting more and
more fluid and easy throughout the time. This boils down to the improvements made in NLP …

Chatbots are computer programs aiming to replicate human conversational abilities through
voice exchanges, textual dialogues, or both. They are becoming increasingly pervasive in …

A chatbot is artificial intelligence software that converses with a user in natural language. It
can be instrumental in mitigating teaching workloads by coaching or answering student …

Rhetorical structure theory (RST) is a significant theory about discourse organization. With
an increasing number of research interests focus on RST, many novel parsing approaches …

Most tourists have limited time and schedule when they are visiting a particular tourism area.
One of the main issues faced by those tourists is that they can not make simple queries to …

Abstract Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention calculate a rhetorical
relationship between one or more sentences. In an example, a computer-implemented …

We propose a novel way of the conversational recommendation where instead of asking
user questions to acquire her preferences, the recommender tracks her conversations with …

Automatic text summarization (ATS) has recently achieved impressive performance thanks
to recent advances in deep learning and the availability of large-scale corpora. However …

In the Introduction, we discussed that chatbot platforms offered by enterprises turned out to
be good for simple cases, not really enterprise-level deployments. In this chapter we make a …