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Spoken Dialogue Systems have enormously improved during the last couple of years and gave rise to voice-controlled mobile assistants. While the abilities of these systems are very sophisticated, there is a lack of tools enabling us to easily describe a natural dialogue that can afterwards be processed by a dialogue engine without having to programme the engine itself. In this paper we present NADIA, a dialogue engine that can process an easy to define XML-based dialogue description.
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Berg, M.M. (2015). NADIA: A Simplified Approach Towards the Development of Natural Dialogue Systems. In: Biemann, C., Handschuh, S., Freitas, A., Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19581-0_12
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