TY - GEN
T1 - Everyday language help system based on software manual
AU - Iwashita, Shino
AU - Ito, Noriko
AU - Kobayashi, Ichiro
AU - Sugimoto, Toru
AU - Sugeno, Michio
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - This paper presents a method for providing an everyday language smart help using an application software manual. This system takes three phases in the process: understanding of a user's input, matching the result of understanding with manual texts of application software, and paraphrasing the matched texts to output for the user. We focus on the output phase, in which a manual text matched in the matching phase is paraphrased using the analysis result in the understanding phase. Four paraphrasing methods for a novice user are identified by a subject experiment, and rules for these methods are applied in respect to the linguistic features extracted in the understanding phase. An example scenario is shown, and the applied rules and their effects are discussed.
AB - This paper presents a method for providing an everyday language smart help using an application software manual. This system takes three phases in the process: understanding of a user's input, matching the result of understanding with manual texts of application software, and paraphrasing the matched texts to output for the user. We focus on the output phase, in which a manual text matched in the matching phase is paraphrased using the analysis result in the understanding phase. Four paraphrasing methods for a novice user are identified by a subject experiment, and rules for these methods are applied in respect to the linguistic features extracted in the understanding phase. An example scenario is shown, and the applied rules and their effects are discussed.
KW - Everyday language computing
KW - Paraphrasing
KW - Smart help system
KW - Software manual
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400907
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400907
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:15744402688
SN - 0780385667
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 3635
EP - 3640
BT - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
T2 - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Y2 - 10 October 2004 through 13 October 2004
ER -