Middleware for Incremental Processing in Conversational Agents

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 implementae 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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGDIAL
• Authors: David Schlangen, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Okko Buß, Stefan Kopp, Gabriel Skantze, Ramin Yaghoubzadeh
• Keywords: Incremental, Incremental Information, Incremental Processing, Natural Language Processing, SIGDIAL 2010