Semantic interpretation is an important component in
dialog system
A dialogue system, or conversational agent (CA), is a computer system intended to converse with a human. Dialogue systems employed one or more of text, speech, graphics, haptics, gestures, and other modes for communication on both the input and o ...
s.
It is related to
natural language understanding
Natural-language understanding (NLU) or natural-language interpretation (NLI) is a subtopic of natural-language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension. Natural-language understanding is considered an A ...
, but mostly it refers to the last stage of understanding. The goal of interpretation is binding the user
utterance
In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, often beginning and ending with a clear pause. In the case of oral languages, it is generally, but not always, bounded by silence. Utterances do not exist in written lang ...
to concept, or something the system can understand.
Typically it is creating a database query based on user utterance.
References
Multimodal interaction
Natural language processing
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