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If computer systems are to become the information-seeking, task-executing, problem-solving agents we want them to be then they must be able to communicate as effectively with humans as humans do with each other. It is thus desirable to develop computer systems that can also communicate with humans via spoken natural language dialog. The motivation for our work is to embody large applications with dialog capabilities. To do so we have adopted an object-oriented approach to dialog.
In this paper we describe a set of dialog principles we have developed that will provide a computer system with the capacity to conduct a dialog. Our ultimate goal is to make the job of an application developer interested in designing a dialog-based application to do so effectively and easily.
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Abella, A., Brown, M.K., Buntschuh, B. (1997). Development principles for dialog-based interfaces. In: Maier, E., Mast, M., LuperFoy, S. (eds) Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems. DPSLS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63175-5_43
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