In these days our daily life is more and more affected by computers. For this
reason it is necessary to find a simple and intuitive way to interact with complex
technologies. Natural language dialog systems could be the solution
how humans and machines could communicate with each other. One of the
main tasks of such dialog systems is to provide fast and appropriate answers
to users questions. The challenge is: how do we find these answers out of
the flood of information? Is there a way or an algorithm to find the appropriate
answer to a given question?
The author Christian Pretzsch gives, at...