Examples of Dialogue Systems

Abstract:
In this Chapter, we give examples in the form of dialogue fragments in the context of two existing dialogue systems: a speaking elevator and a route planning system. This will serve as background when we look at the details of the elevator system later (» FSA-based Dialogue Systems).

Dialogue Processing
We now consider some general desired characteristics that any dialogue system should have.

Speaking Elevator: Examples of Required Behaviour
The Saarbrücken computational linguistics department has a speaking elevator. We introduce the system and see how it deals with the general dialogue characteristics from » General Dialogue characteristics.

TRAINS Dialogue System Description
We now come to a dialogue sytem which is richer than the speaking elevator. We first introduce the system.

TRAINS General Dialogue Characteristics
We now discuss how TRAINS realizes the dialogue characteristics we introduced in » General Dialogue characteristics

TRAINS References
Here are some papers on TRAINS. Have a look at the systems's web page as well. Watch out for demo movies!

Examples of Dialogue Systems

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