Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
An architecture for more realistic conversational systems
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
An intelligent speech interface for personal assistants applied to knowledge management
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
A voice-enabled assistant in a multi-agent system for e-government services
ISSADS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advanced Distributed Systems
Giving Personal Assistant Agents a Case-Based Memory
International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence
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This paper describes the design of a speech and natural language dialog interface for personal assistants. We are specially interested in working with personal assistants in professional domains. We believe that the use of speech will facilitate the interaction between human and machine, since the user may speak with the agent using her own terms, increasing the quality of the assistance. The main difficulty in our approach however is to handle spoken natural language, and to understand its actual context. To overcome such difficulties, we restrict the exchanges to Directives Speech Act classes: inform, request, or answer.We present a conversational speech interface architecture in a multi-agent system applied to personal information management. As a clear result, we expect an increase in the quality of the interface and of the assistance to the user, which seems to be the case on preliminary results.