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ITRI-99-11 Dialogue as Knowledge Editing

This paper introduces a new approach to human-machine dialogue. This approach is based on the idea that dialogue can be seen as a form of knowledge base editing. In a dialogue, it is the dialogue history which is being edited. We propose some constraints on editing dialogue histories which distinguish dialogue from knowledge base editing in general. We claim that our proposal yields both interesting conceptual insights into the nature of dialogue, and provides a starting point for building practically feasible dialogue systems. A first, partly functional, prototype of such a dialogue system has been developed. We provide a description of this system.