Rapid Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Rapid Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Matthias Denecke
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '02), August, 2002
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Abstract

We implemented a spoken dialogue system architecture for rapid prototyping. The features that support rapid prototyping include a clear separation of generic dialogue processing algorithms from domain and language specific knowledge sources. In an experiment, it could be shown that six individuals could specify these domain and language specific knowledge sources within 8 to 12 hours to come up with a prototypical implementation of a spoken dialogue system. To that end, no dialogue strategy had to be specified. Rather, it was sufficient to provide an ontology, a description of the services offered by the system, parsing grammars, database conversion rules and generation templates. Furthermore, the experiment shows that it is possible to formulate dialogue strategies in a domain and language independent manner; thus not requiring a system designer to be knowledgeable about dialogue processing.

BibTeX

@conference{Denecke-2002-8525,
author = {Matthias Denecke},
title = {Rapid Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '02)},
year = {2002},
month = {August},
}
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