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Ideas on Multi-layer dialogue management for Multi-party, Multi-conversation, Multi-modal communication
David Traum
University of Southern California
Computerlinguistisches Kolloquium
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Date, Time and Location
Wednesday, 5 December 2001
14:15
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DFKI
-2.17
Saarbrücken
Abstract
Most current dialogue systems concern only a short dialogue between a
single system and single user, focused on a single task. On the other
hand, the full spectrum of communication between interacting agents
includes cases in which multiple segments of conversation can be
interleaved with other, sometimes unrelated actions and events (e.g.,
a cocktail party). The Mission Rehearsal Exercise Project at ICT is
between these two extremes, having one main purpose (training relating
to decision making in an Army peacekeeping mission), but multiple
characters, each with its own goals, interests, and capabilities.
I will present a multiple layer approach towards modelling and
managing these complexities, including who is accessible for
conversation, paying attention, involved in a conversation, as well as
turn-taking, initiative, grounding, and higher-level dialogue
functions. The method will follow that used in the Trindi project,
where one specifies an information state, and "dialogue moves"
representing input and output, as well as associated updates to
information state.
A preliminary version of these ideas is presented in:
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-46/traum-agentsws.pdf
Brief Biography:
David Traum is a research scientist at Institute for Creative
Technologies, and Research Assistant Professor in the computer science
department at the University of Southern California. He earned a PhD
at University of Rochester in 1994, and has since worked at University
of Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Maryland on dialogue
modelling, computer-mediated collaboration, and machine translation.
If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact:
Malte Gabdil
This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the European Post-Graduate
College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.
A current version of the program for this term can be found at:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/
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Uwe Brahm, 04/12/2007 12:06 -- Created document.