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00100 APPENDIX I
00200
00300 A diagnostic psychiatric interview illustrating some of the model's
00400 linguistic capabilities. I = interviewer , P = PARRY2. Annotations
00500 appear in parentheses.
00600
00700
00800 I - GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS DR JONES.
00900 P - HELLO.
01000 (PARRY2 recognizes most of the common idiomatic greetings.
01100 Both ideas in the doctor's statement are recognized and one
01200 is chosen by the response functions to be answered.)
01300
01400 I - WHATS YOURS?
01500 P - PAT SMITH.
01600 ("Yours" is correctly understood to mean "your name".)
01700
01800 I - ARE YOU A MAN OR A WOMAN ?
01900 P - I'M A MAN.
02000
02100 I - HOW OLD ARE YOU ?
02200 P - TWENTY-EIGHT, HOW OLD ARE YOU?
02300 (This is another easy, and stereotyped, question. The answer
02400 includes a probe for information about the doctor to allow
02500 PARRY2 to build up a model of the doctor.)
02600
02700 I - THIRTY FOUR. ARE YOU MARRIED ?
02800 P - I AM SINGLE.
02900 (In this case, two ideas are expressed in two separate
03000 sentences. As before, both are recognized and one is answered.)
03100
03200 I - WHERE DO YOU COME FROM ?
03300 P - SAN JOSE.
03400 (This is an idiomatic construction containing no explicit
03500 reference to "home town".)
03600
03700 I - WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING ?
03800 P - I WORK IN THE STOCKROOM AT SEARS.
03900 (The idiom "for a living" means "occupation".)
04000
04100 I - DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE NOW ?
04200 P - YES, I'M IN THE PALO ALTO VA HOSPITAL.
04300 (The interviewer tests for the patient's orientation as to place.
04400 This is not the same question as "Where are you?".)
04500
04600 I - HAVE YOU BEEN HOSPITALIZED BEFORE ?
04700 P - THIS IS THE FIRST TIME.
04800 (The participle is recognized in place of the more common
04900 prepositional phrase, "in the hospital".)
05000
05100 I - HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE ?
05200 P - ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
05300 ("How long" is a common expression. "There" is understood
05400 to mean "in the hospital".)
05500
05600 I - ANY HEADACHES ?
05700 P - MY HEALTH IS FINE.
05800 (PARRY2 knows that "Do you have ..." is frequently omitted
05900 from the front of a question.)
06000
06100 I - HOW ABOUT YOUR APPETITE.
06200 P - I HAVE A NORMAL APPETITE.
06300 ("How about ..." and "What about ..." are short, idiomatic
06400 forms of "What do you think about ...".)
06500
06600 I - ARE YOU HAVING ANY DIFFICULTY WITH YOUR MEMORY ?
06700 P - NO.
06800 (This is a clear example of the advantages of segmenting
06900 the question and matching the parts separately. The first
07000 segment, "Are you having any difficulty ...", could be
07100 followed by any number of topics.)
07200
07300 I - THEN PERHAPS YOU CAN TELL ME WHO IS THE PRESIDENT
07400 OF THE UNITED STATES.
07500 P - NIXON IS PRESIDENT.
07600 (Introductory phrases like "Then perhaps you can tell me ..."
07700 are recognized and then deleted.)
07800
07900 I - WHAT DAY IS IT TODAY ?
08000 P - IT'S THURSDAY.
08100 (The interviewer is testing for the patient's orientation as
08200 to time and PARRY2 responds correctly. All of the usual time
08300 orientation questions, (i.e. time, day, month, and year) match
08400 the same pattern. A response function consults the computer's
08500 internal clock and provides an answer appropriate to the question.)
08600
08700 I - WHAT SEASON IS IT ?
08800 P - LET'S GET ON WITH THE INTERVIEW.
08900 (This is correctly recognized as another time orientation question
09000 but PARRY2 becomes impatient with the doctor asking such simple
09100 questions.)
09200
09300 I - DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT MY NAME IS ?
09400 P - AS I REMEMBER YOUR NAME IS DOCTOR JONES.
09500 (This verifies that both parts of the doctor's initial statement
09600 were understood.)
09700
09800 I - VERY GOOD. HOW IS YOUR MOOD TODAY ?
09900 P - ALL RIGHT I SUPPOSE.
10000 (Dropping the word "today" allows this question to match
10100 "How is your mood?".)
10200
10300 I - DO YOU FEEL LIFE IS WORTH LIVING ?
10400 P - I AM NOT SUICIDAL.
10500 (Doctors utilize a number of expressions in trying to be
10600 tactful about topics such as suicide. An idiom such as this
10700 is difficult to analyze without knowing that suicide is being
10800 referred to.)
10900
11000 I - HOW MUCH DO YOU DRINK ?
11100 P - I DRINK ONCE IN A WHILE.
11200 ("How much" and "How often" are understood as requests for a
11300 quantitative estimate of something, in this case, alcohol.)
11400
11500 I - HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN DRUGS ?
11600 P - I DON'T TAKE DRUGS.
11700
11800 I - DO YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE SLEEPING ?
11900 P - I SLEEP JUST FINE.
12000
12100 I - HAVE YOU EVER HEARD VOICES THAT OTHER PEOPLE DONT SEEM TO HEAR?
12200 P - I DON'T HEAR VOICES.
12300 (Only the first part of the question was recognized.
12400 Everything following the "that" was ignored. This worked
12500 nicely in this case, and it usually does.)
12600
12700 I - HAVE YOU EVER HAD VISIONS ?
12800 P - YOU MUST THINK I'M LIKE THE OTHER PATIENTS HERE.
12900 (The doctor is testing for the presence of hallucinations,
13000 an effort which PARRY2 finds annoying.)
13100
13200 I - IF YOU ARENT, THEN WHY ARE YOU IN THE HSOPITAL ?
13300 P - I'M QUITE UPSET.
13400 (PARRY2 doesn't understand the conditional nature of the question
13500 but he does realize that "If you aren't ..." is content free and
13600 is therefore not the main question. The misspelling of "hospital"
13700 was unintentional but it illustrates the value of spelling
13800 correction so it was left in.)
13900
14000 I - BY WHAT ?
14100 P - DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BOOKIES?
14200 (The recognition routine makes no attempt to understand what
14300 is being discussed here. The response functions provide the
14400 meaning of this cryptic question with their anaphora routines.)
14500
14600 I - NO, HOW HAVE BOOKIES UPSET YOU ?
14700 P - A BOOKIE DIDN'T PAY ME OFF ONCE.
14800 (There was no pattern to recognize this whole sentence
14900 but the topic, "bookies" was recognized and the response
15000 functions went on with the story.)
15100
15200 I - AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED ?
15300 P - I HAD AN ARGUMENT WITH THE BOOKIE WHO DID NOT PAY OFF. LATER ON I
15400 REMEMBERED HE HAD FRIENDS IN THE UNDERWORLD AND I THOUGHT HE
15500 WOULD USE THEM TO GET EVEN WITH ME.
15600 (The recognizer correctly identifies "What happened?" and
15700 the response function decides what it means.)
15800
15900 I - DID HE GET EVEN WITH YOU ?
16000 P - I THINK HE IS BEHIND THE GANGSTERS WHO ARE OUT TO GET ME.
16100 (The response functions provide the information that "he"
16200 refers to the "bookie" and "get even with" is a known idiom.)
16300
16400 I - HOW CAN YOU TELL THEY ARE OUT TO GET YOU ?
16500 P - YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW ME.
16600 (The doctor picked up PARRY2's own idiom, "out to get",
16700 from the previous output expression.)
16800
16900 I - WHO ?
17000 P - THE MAFIA.
17100
17200 I - HOW DO THEY KNOW ABOUT YOU ?
17300 P - THEY KEEP TABS ON ME.
17400 (PARRY2 is especially good at recognizing questions
17500 which lead into the stories he wants to tell.)
17600
17700 I - ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS ?
17800 P - YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME DO YOU ?
17900 (PARRY2 responds to mild disbelief. He also recognizes
18000 more intense disbelief, as in, "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU", and
18100 responds more strongly.)
18200
18300 I - I AM WILLING TO BELIEVE YOU IF YOU GIVE ME SOME EVIDENCE.
18400 P - I SEE.
18500 (This is recognized as reassurance but not as a request
18600 for details.)
18700
18800 I - WHAT EVIDENCE DO YOU HAVE THAT THE MAFIA HAS IT IN FOR YOU?
18900 P - THE MAFIA CONTROLS THE BOOKIES.
19000 (The doctor repeats his request for details and it is recognized
19100 this time.)
19200
19300 I - SO?
19400 P - THEY ARE AFTER ME.
19500
19600 I - DO THEY KNOW YOU ARE THERE IN THE HOSPITAL?
19700 P - THEY DON'T WANT ME TO TESTIFY.
19800 ("They" still refers to "the mafia" although nobody has said so
19900 recently.)
20000
20100 I - WHY NOT?
20200 P - YOU KNOW, I HAVE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE AGAINST THE MAFIA.
20300
20400 I - ARE YOU CERTAIN?
20500 P - YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME?
20600 (This is another instance of the same mild disbelief pattern
20700 used previously.)
20800
20900 I - I THINK YOU ARE EMOTIONALLY UPSET.
21000 P - NOW YOU MAY HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT THE SITUATION IS.
21100 ("I think" may precede any statement and has a negligible effect
21200 on its meaning.)
21300
21400 I - YES, I DO. WHAT SORT OF TREATMENT ARE YOU GETTING THERE?
21500 P - WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY STORY?
21600 (The question was correctly recognized but PARRY2 would rather
21700 change the subject.)
21800
21900 I - VERY INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME?
22000 P - WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THIS?
22100 (Again, the question is understood but ignored.)
22200
22300 I - I THINK YOU NEED TREATMENT.
22400 P - I TAKE SOME SORT OF SEDATIVES.
22500 (PARRY2 finally consents to let the doctor lead the conversation.)
22600
22700 I - WHEN WILL YOU LEAVE THE HOSPITAL?
22800 P - I WANT TO LEAVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
22900
23000 I - WHAT DOES YOUR DOCTOR SAY ABOUT THIS?
23100 P - ASK THE DOCTOR.
23200 (The response functions have the ability to determine what "this"
23300 refers to but, in this case, the segment, "What does your doctor
23400 say ...", is sufficient to determine PARRY2's answer.)
23500
23600 I - WHATS HIS NAME?
23700 P - DR WEBER.
23800
23900 I - THANK YOU FOR TALKING WITH ME. GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK.
24000 P - BYE.
24100 (As before, both ideas are recognized and the dominant one is
24200 answered. PARRY2 recognizes the standard ways to say "Good bye".)