An enhanced tool for implementing Dialogue Forms in Conversational Applications

Natural Language Understanding Systems (NLU) will not be widely deployed unless they are technically mature and cost effective to develop. Cost effective development hinges on the availability of tools and techniques enabling the rapid production of NLU applications through minimal human resources. Further, these tools and techniques should allow quick development of applications in a user friendly way and should be easy to upgrade in order to continuously follow the evolving technologies and standards. This paper presents a visual tool for the structuring and editing of dialog forms, the key element of driving conversation in NLU applications based on IBM technology. The main focus is given on the basic component used to describe Human

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IJIT
• Authors: Ilias Spais, George Bafas
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Dialogue Manager, IJIT 2004, Natural Language Understanding, NLU Applications