Implementing advanced spoken dialogue management in Java

  • Authors:
  • Ian O'Neill;Philip Hanna;Xingkun Liu;Des Greer;Michael McTear

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK;School of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK;School of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK;School of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK;School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK

  • Venue:
  • Science of Computer Programming - Special issue on principles and practice of programming in java (PPPJ 2003)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this article we describe how Java can be used to implement an object-based, cross-domain, mixed initiative spoken dialogue manager (DM). We describe how dialogue that crosses between several business domains can be modelled as an inheriting and collaborating suite of objects suitable for implementation in Java. We describe the main features of the Java implementation and how the Java dialogue manager can be interfaced via the Galaxy software hub, as used in the DARPA-sponsored Communicator projects in the United States, with the various off-the-shelf components that are needed in a complete end-to-end spoken dialogue system. We describe the interplay of the Java components in the course of typical dialogue turns and present an example of the sort of dialogue that the Java DM can support.