Friday, October 08, 2010
12:45 PM
CSB 703
Katie Lang
University of Rochester
AID: An Intelligent Dialogue System for Food Relief Assessment Interviews
Natural disasters can strike at any time and when they do, they leave
behind people in need. Those people may need shelter, clean water, food,
or clothes. In order to help recover from such natural disasters and
attempt to prevent the aftermath from occurring again (at least the most
severe cases), MIFIRA was created. However, the implementation of MIFIRA
can be slow, inaccurate, and not complete mainly due to the fact that it
is human-based and not machine-based. To help streamline the process,
natural language dialogue systems are being built. This talk will explain
how natural language dialogue systems will be used, what MIFIRA is, and
where this project is headed.