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Toward a linguistically grounded dialog model for chatbot design
The increasing interest in various types of conversational interfaces has been supported by a progressive standardization of the technological frameworks used to build them. However, the landscape of available methodological frameworks for designing conversations is much more fragmented. We propose a highly generalizable methodology for designing conversational flows rooted in a functionalist-pragmatics perspective, with an explicit adherence to a conversationalist approach. In parallel, we elaborate a practical-procedural workflow for undertaking chatbots projects in which we situate the theoretical starting point. At last, we elaborate a general case- study on which we transpose the identified approach in Italian language and using one of the most authoritative NLU platforms
CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 6
Questo sesto volume della collana âCLUB Working Papers in Linguisticsâ raccoglie alcuni dei contributi presentati nel corso delle iniziative organizzate dal Circolo Linguistico dellâUniversitĂ di Bologna nellâanno accademico 2020-2021. Risalgono al programma ufficiale i primi tre saggi, a firma rispettivamente di Elisa Corino (UniversitĂ di Torino), Marina Benedetti (UniversitĂ per Stranieri di Siena) e Andrea SansĂČ (UniversitĂ dellâInsubria). I successivi tre contributi sono stati originariamente presentati in occasione dei seminari periodici del Circolo; si tratta dei lavori di Silvia Brambilla e Idea Basile (UniversitĂ di Bologna e UniversitĂ Roma âLa Sapienzaâ), Marta Maffia e Massimo Pettorino (UniversitĂ di Napoli âLâOrientaleâ) e Anna DallâAcqua (UniversitĂ di Bologna e Injenia S.r.L.). Il volume si chiude con un articolo di Ottavia Cepraga, vincitrice del premio âUna tesi in linguisticaâ 2021
Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2021
The eighth edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021) was held at UniversitĂ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca from 26th to 28th January 2022. After the edition of 2020, which was held in fully virtual mode due to the health emergency related to Covid-19, CLiC-it 2021 represented the first moment for the Italian research community of Computational Linguistics to meet in person after more than one year of full/partial lockdown