Abstract
Spoken dialogue interfaces apply in a number of applications. Engaging in meaningful conversation presupposes the ability to recognize and generate different conversational moves, and to adaptively carry on a dialogue. Although the portability of dialogue interfaces is highly desirable, few current approaches address it seriously.
We describe a portable toolkit for constructing spoken dialogue interfaces. We present the representations and techniques used to customize an interface to a particular domain and application. Our approach relies on shallow knowledge of the domain, and interprets a rule-based model of the dialogue.
Mona Singh and James Barnett are supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology under grant NIST-70NANB5B1181.
Munindar Singh is supported by the NCSU College of Engineering, the National Science Foundation under grants IRI-9529179 and IRI-9624425, and IBM corporation.
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Singh, M., Barnett, J., Singh, M.P. (1997). Automating spoken dialogue systems. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_20
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