Using a Reactive Planner as the Basis for a Dialogue Agent

Thispaper describesAPE(the Atlas PlanningEngine),the reactive planner at the center of the Atlas dialogue managementsystem. The goal of Atlas is to build conversation-basedsystems, whereturns in the "conversation" mayinclude graphical actions and/ortext. Since APEcan be used to generate a dialogue involving arbitrarily nesteddiscourseconstructs,it is morepowerful than dialogue planners basedon finite-state machines. Although it is intended largely to model dialogue containinghierarchical, multi-turnplans, APEcanalso be used as a general-purpose programmingtool for implementinga dialoguesystem.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: FLAIRS
• Authors: Reva Freedman
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Atlas Dialogue Managementsystem, Dialogue, Dialogue Planners, FLAIRS 2000