Middleware for incremental processing in conversational agents

Authors:
David Schlangen;Timo Baumann;Hendrik Buschmeier;Okko Buß;Stefan Kopp;Gabriel Skantze;Ramin Yaghoubzadeh
Affiliations:
University of Potsdam, Germany;University of Potsdam, Germany;Bielefeld University, Germany;University of Potsdam, Germany;Bielefeld University, Germany;KTH, Stockholm Sweden;Bielefeld University, Germany
Venue:
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the 'middleware' layer in these systems, which takes care of passing around and maintaining incremental information between the modules of such agents. All implementations are based on the abstract model of incremental dialogue processing proposed by Schlangen and Skantze (2009), and the paper shows what different instantiations of the model can look like given specific requirements and application areas.