@inproceedings{xuetao_corpus-based_2008,
	address = {Paris, France},
	title = {A corpus-based {NLP-chain} for a web-based Assisting Conversational Agent},
	shorttitle = {Actes de {WACA} 2008},
	abstract = {Assisting Conversational Agents are Embodied Conversational Agents dedicated to the Function of Assistance for applications and services to the general public. Assisting agents for the general public are more and more required on the Internet-based new rich-client applications. We have developed a web-based framework to experiment with assisting agents, called the {DIVA} toolkit, where the Function of Assistance is a key issue, and the Natural Language modality a primary concern. This is why the {DIVA} toolkit is based on a Natural Language Processing chain {(NLP-chain)} handling the users’ textual questions about the structure and the functioning of the {DIVA} web pages. This paper describes the architecture of the {NLP-chain} and focuses on the corpus-based approach developed so as to provide an actual grounding for the intermediate Formal Request Form {(FRF),} at the heart of the {NLP-chain.}},
	booktitle = {Actes du Troisième Workshop sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés {(WACA} 2008)},
	author = {Mao Xuetao and {Jean-Paul} Sansonnet and François Bouchet},
	month = nov,
	year = {2008},
	keywords = {web-based agents, corpus of assisting requests, natural language request handling},
	pages = {41--49}
}