Design and Principal Information Recovery System using the Internet and a Multimodal Dialogue Interface

Abstract

Everyday life in the information society of the future century will revolve on information retrieval via the Internet, and spoken
language will play a crucial role in human-machine dialogue. This article provides a high-level description of an intelligent information
retrieval system that makes use of agent technology, processes unfamiliar words, uses important ideas, and has conversations.
In this model, three agents are defined to handle the user interface, data retrieval, and data gathering, in that order. The
novel aspects of the system are thereafter summarized as follows: dialogue management by use of user and system modeling;
information retrieval by means of key concepts; and inference on the meaning of unfamiliar terms by means of structural
analyses of their syntax and semantics.