Bateman, JohnFarrar, ScottRoss, Robert J.Tenbrink, Thora2005-06-152005-06-1520052005-06-13http://hdl.handle.net/2003/21466http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-14210We report on the role of well-formed conceptual and linguistic ontologies in empirically grounded `spoken dialogue systems' (SDS). In particular we use empirical results from spatial dialogues in German to argue for the strict separation of linguistically motivated knowledge from non-linguistic, domain concerns. We motivate our arguments with a number of examples relevant to the language generation task, and show how a well-defined separation of linguistic and domain concerns can be effected in a practical SDS.236998 bytes797437 bytesapplication/pdfapplication/postscripten430Text