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Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan

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In this paper, we present an intelligent personal assistant, called Uhura, that handles requests involving multiple, interrelated goals and activities by efficiently producing a coherent plan. Uhura achieves this by integrating a collaborative dialog manager, a conflict-directed planner with spatial and temporal reasoning capabilities, and a large-scale knowledge graph. We also present a user survey that assesses the usefulness of the plans produced by Uhura in urban travel planning.

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  1. CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Peng Yu & Brian Williams

  2. NL & AI Lab, Nuance Communications Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 95054, USA

    Jiaying Shen & Peter Z. Yeh

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stefan Scherer

  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Anton Leuski

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Yu, P., Shen, J., Yeh, P.Z., Williams, B. (2016). Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_47

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