TRACKING THE CONTEXT IN MAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION

A method of tracking the context in man-machine communication is propo sed. The ''tracking the context'' is defined as locating the place of context switching and dividing the user's command sequence into chunks , each of which corresponds to one work. For tracking the context, ''a syntactic-context'' is introduced. A syntactic-context is a working s et of words in the command lines a user enters. To locate the place of the syntactic-context switching, word-kind ratio and window contribut ion are defined. It is shown that the hit rate of command prediction i s improved by using these indicators, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.