Adaptable Controlled Natural Languages for Online Query Systems

Abstract

This workintroduces atechnique for adapting GF7 basedquery systems.This technique is implemented in a travel planning query system in two ways. Firstly, users can customize the systemto their own needs and definesynonyms for a series of information to use in later utterances. Secondly, the system can update GF grammar to make the system flexible when new situations occur. While implementing GF grammar adaptation in a query system, we introduce a design pattern formultilingual travel planning systems that allow users to find up to date%travel plans.The resulting system ca nbe easily ported to a new public transport network and communicates with a transport web service to find accurate travelplans.Adapting GF7based dialogue systems improves the functionality of speech recognizers by defining synonyms for specific phrases.