Challenges in Building Intelligent Open-domain Dialog Systems

Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems

Spoken dialog researchers have recently demonstrated highly-interactive systems in several domains. This paper considers how to build on these advances to make systems more robust, easier to develop, and more scientifically significant. We identify key challenges whose solution would lead to improvements in dialog systems and beyond.

Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems

This tutorial will give a practical description of the free software Carnegie Mellon Olympus 2 Spoken Dialog Architecture. Building real working dialog systems that are robust enough for the general public to use is difficult. Most frequently, the functionality of the conversations is severely limited down to simple question-answer pairs. While offthe-shelf toolkits help the development of such...

Open-World Dialog: Challenges, Directions, and Prototype

We present an investigation of open-world dialog, centering on building and studying systems that can engage in conversation in an open-world context, where multiple people with different needs, goals, and long-term plans may enter, interact, and leave an environment. We outline and discuss a set of challenges and core competencies required for supporting the kind of fluid multiparty interactio...

The Challenges of Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Teams

Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog System

This demo paper describes a text-based, open-domain dialog system developed especially for social, small talk-like conversations. While much research is focused on goal-oriented dialog currently, in human-to-human communication many dialogs do not have a predefined goal. In order to achieve similar communication with a computer, we propose a framework which is easily extensible by combining dif...