This paper presents an examination of the Queen's Communicator, a cross-domain, mixed initiative spoken dialogue system, in terms of the system's extensibility and reusability. The paper explores how an object-oriented design methodology can be used to define both high-level discourse objects and appropriate forms of relationship between discourse objects. The paper concludes that the application of an object-based approach to dialogue system design makes possible the use of a number of different mechanisms that facilitate the extension and reuse of discourse expertise.
Cite as: Hanna, P., O'Neill, I., Liu, X., McTear, M. (2005) Developing extensible and reusable spoken dialogue components: an examination of the Queen's communicator. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 1865-1868, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-588
@inproceedings{hanna05_interspeech,
author={Philip Hanna and Ian O'Neill and Xingkun Liu and Michael McTear},
title={{Developing extensible and reusable spoken dialogue components: an examination of the Queen's communicator}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={1865--1868},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-588}
}