Dialog Management Middleware




[PDF] DIUM-An Incremental Dialogue Manager That Can Produce Self-Corrections
[PDF] from usc.eduO Buß... - Proceedings of semdial, 2011 - projects.ict.usc.edu
... 2010. Middleware for Incremental Processing in Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of SigDial
2010, Tokyo, Japan, September. ... 2004. Information- Seeking Chat: Dialogue Management by
Topic Struc- ture. In Proceedings of SemDial 2004, Barcelona, Spain, July. ... 
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Affective dialogue management using factored pomdps
[PDF] from stanford.eduT Bui, J Zwiers, M Poel... - Interactive Collaborative Information ..., 2010 - Springer
Page 1. Affective Dialogue Management Using Factored POMDPs Trung H. Bui, Job
Zwiers, Mannes Poel, and Anton Nijholt Abstract. Partially Observable ... 24]. Page 3. Affective
Dialogue Management Using Factored POMDPs 209 system ... 
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A middleware for rapid prototyping smart environments: experiences in research and teaching
S Bader, G Ruscher... - ... of the 12th ACM international conference ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... The issue of building a middleware for distributed systems has been addressed by many authors:
Systems as Metaglue [3 ... 2] (leveraging on multi-agent technology), the Galaxy Communicator
[1] (focusing on distributed multi-modal dialogue management), EMBASSI and ... 
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[PDF] Incremental Dialogue Processing
[PDF] from uni-bielefeld.deD Schlangen - 2011 - wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de
... study of corpora of human-human interaction, and will be implemented within a framework for
dialogue management in general ... Baumann, Buß & Schlangen 2010, Schlangen, Baumann,
Buschmeier, Buß, Kopp, Skantze & Yaghoubzadeh 2010) ("Middleware for incremental ... 
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A multimodal dialogue system for an ambient intelligent application in home environments
N Ábalos, G Espejo, R López-Cózar... - Text, Speech and ..., 2011 - Springer
... However, if the user makes an order the dialogue manager executes the order and requires the
generation of a confirmation message. ... Future work will focus on the design and implementation
of a middleware layer to represent the environment and let us handle the interaction ... 
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[PDF] The CAWE Framework-Enhancing Service Oriented Architecture with Context Awareness Extended Abstract
[PDF] from psu.eduL Ardissono, R Furnari, A Goy, G Petrone... - 2010 - Citeseer
... enriches Service Oriented Architecture with (a) adaptation techniques supporting the execution
of context-sensitive work- flows; (b) dialog management capabilities supporting ... [12] C. Rich, D.
McDonald, N. Lesh, and C. Sidner, "COLLAGEN: Java middleware for collaborative ... 
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Towards learned feedback for enhancing trust in information seeking dialogue for radiologists
[PDF] from ntu.edu.twD Sonntag - Proceedings of the 15th international conference on ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... The run-time envi- ronment is based on a middleware platform which connects system components and follows a hub-and ... The dialogue manager model of our novel feedback func- tionality is based on ontological knowledge representation structures (assertions), as introduced ... 
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[PDF] Jindigo: A Javabased Framework for Incremental Dialogue Systems
[PDF] from kth.seG Skantze - Proceedings of Interspeech. submitted, www. jidingo. ..., 2010 - speech.kth.se
... Jindigo can be regarded as a middleware layer for building incremental modules based on the
general model outlined above, and it provides a set of standard modules with which it is ... A
multi-Layer architecture for semi-synchronous event-driven dialogue Management. ... 
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Multimodal dialogue for ambient intelligence and smart environments
[PDF] from gmu.eduR López-Cózar... - Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart ..., 2010 - Springer
... WSAMI-compliant Web services to offer intelligent-aware multimodal interfaces to mobile users:
i) linguistic analysis and dialogue management, ii) multimodality and adaptive speech recognition,
and iii) context awareness. Berre et al [5] proposed a middleware called SAMBA ... 
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Owlspeak-adaptive spoken dialogue within intelligent environments
T Heinroth, D Denich... - Pervasive Computing and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... status of the surround ing environment [9]. The InterAct IE provides a blackboard, which is used
by the dialogue manager to generate ... project Gaia [11] aims to construct an infrastructure for IEs
by developing pervasive applications using an agent-based middleware which uses ... 
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The Task-State Coordination Pattern, with applications in Human-Robot-Interaction
[PDF] from dagstuhl.deI Lütkebohle, J Peltason, B Wrede... - InProceedings { ..., 2011 - drops.dagstuhl.de
... A paper on the dialog manager of the system will be part of the proceedings and more details
on the pattern in general are currently in press [12]. ... ACM 15 (1972) 1053-1058 [2] Utz, H.,
Sablatnog, S., Enderle, S., Kraetzschmar, G.: Miro - middleware for mobile robot applications. ... 
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Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users
F Weng, L Cavedon, B Raghuanathan... - EP Patent ..., 2011 - freepatentsonline.com
... including, for example, the speech recognition module 102, the natural language understanding
module 103 and the dialog manager module 104. ... the exemplary system 100 maybe configured
in a distributed manner with an event-based, message-oriented middleware to allow ... 
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Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users
F Weng, L Cavedon, B Raghunathan... - US Patent ..., 2010 - Google Patents
... including, for example, the speech recognition module 102, the natural language under- standing
module 103 and the dialog manager module 104. ... exemplary system 100 may be config- ured
in a distributed manner with an event-based, message- oriented middleware to allow ... 
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An open distributed framework for adaptive user interaction in ambient intelligence
MR Tazari - Ambient Intelligence, 2010 - Springer
... The event-based I/O buses of the PERSONA middleware in figure 3 are designed to satisfy the
interoperability needs in smart ... This special component is called the Dialog Manager, which is
one of the mandatory components of the PERSONA platform in charge of representing ... 
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Linked data integration for semantic dialogue and backend access
D Sonntag... - AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets ..., 2010 - aaai.org
... to record and play back audio streams, and to render the received display data obtained from
the dialogue sys- tem/dialogue manager (figure 1 ... Java interface to the third-party components
and the backend, see figure 2). The dialogue system acts as the middleware between the ... 
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[PDF] Explanations in dialogue systems through uncertain RDF knowledge bases
[PDF] from mpg.deD Sonntag... - Workshop on Explanation-aware ..., 2010 - domino.mpi-sb.mpg.de
... The dialogue system acts as the middleware between the clients and the backend services (ie,
the RDF repositories with an online API ... events, to record and play back audio streams, and to
render the received display data obtained from the dialogue system/dialogue manager. ... 
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[PDF] A Simple SAPI Based Spoken Dialogue System
[PDF] from daverid.comJD Ridgway - 2011 - daverid.com
... input. 3. Dialogue Management, where specific task domains are employed. 4. Response
Generation, where the resultant information of a task is processed. ... 2.6 About Middleware
Middleware represents a software layer tasked with providing the communication element ... 
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[PDF] Rapid Development of Multimodal Dialogue Applications with Semantic Models
[PDF] from liu.seR Neßelrath... - Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue ..., 2011 - ida.liu.se
... environment acts as a middleware be- tween the actual user interface and the back-end in order
to hide the complexity from the user by presenting aggregated data. The internal workflow is
divided into three processing phases:(i) understanding,(ii) dialogue management and ac ... 
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Voice Control in Smart Homes Using Distant Microphones: A VoiceXML-Based Approach
G López, V Peláez, R González... - Ambient Intelligence, 2011 - Springer
... defines the actions supported by each type of device and any other relevant information regarding
these actions, such as configuration parameters and correspondence with actions in the
automation middleware. Focusing on the specific logic of the dialogue manager, a frame ... 
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An event-based conversational system for the Nao robot
[PDF] from dfki.deI Kruijff-Korbayová, G Athanasopoulos... - Proceedings of the ..., 2011 - Springer
... The open source Urbi SDK [6] has been chosen as the middleware in the ALIZ- E project. It aims
at providing a universal programming environment orchestrating complex components. ... An
Event-Based Conversational System for the Nao Robot 127 3.1 Dialogue Manager (DM) ... 
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[TXT] Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference}
[TXT] from aclweb.orgG Skantze, A Hjalmarsson, S Heintze... - Proceedings of the ..., 2010 - aclweb.org
... Hendrik and Bu\ss, Okko and Kopp, Stefan and Skantze, Gabriel and Yaghoubzadeh, Ramin},
title = {Middleware for Incremental ... W/W10/W10-4316} } @InProceedings{xu-seneff:2010:SIGDIAL,
author = {Xu, Yushi and Seneff, Stephanie}, title = {Dialogue Management Based on ... 
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[PDF] Monitoring and explaining reasoning processes in a dialogue system's input interpretation step
[PDF] from csic.esD Sonntag... - Explanation-aware Computing ExaCt ..., 2011 - ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es
... ontological domain extensions; -Debugging functional modules such as natural language
understanding (NLU), input fusion, dialogue management, and external text ... us- age of ontology
data structures [5]. Thereby, the dialogue system also acts as the middleware between the ... 
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[PDF] The Curious Robot as a Case-Study for Comparing Dialog Systems
[PDF] from uni-bielefeld.deJ Peltason... - 2011 - aiweb.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
... This new version (which is not the one we have used) features a multi-layer architecture for
event-driven dialog management. ... In particular, with an event-based architecture, the dialog
manager could react directly to a change of the current interaction goal. ... 
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Adapting Multimodal Fission to User's Abilities
D Costa... - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. ..., 2011 - Springer
... and services (connected TVs, Set-Top Boxes, etc.), including application platforms as HBBTV
as well as proprietary middleware solutions of TV ... are a fusion engine (combination of modalities),
fission module (divide information through active outputs), a dialogue manager and a ... 
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Dictation selection
RS Zimmerman... - US Patent 8,032,372, 2011 - Google Patents
... 705/3 Komatani, et al., "Flexible Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Management 2003/ 0061135 141*
3/ 2003 W?1be1 705/34 Using Concept-Level Con?dence ... 001010010, 2001 _ _ _ _ 2004/0088162
A1 5/2004 H6 61 61, Astley, et al., Customizeable Middleware for Modular ... 
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[BOOK] Intelligent-Based Systems Engineering
LC Jain - 2011 - books.google.com
... 129 2 Background on Distributed Simulation..... 132 3 RISE Middleware API..... ... 202 2.2
Chatterbots..... 203 2.3 Natural Language Processing Based Dialogue Management Systems..... ... 
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The persona service platform for aal spaces
[PDF] from gmu.eduMR Tazari, F Furfari, JPL Ramos... - Handbook of Ambient ..., 2010 - Springer
... so far, it is worth to mention that three repositories must be kept configurable for administrators
of AAL spaces: a) the database of the Situation Reasoner regarding "conditions ? situation"
rules, b) the database of the Dialog Manager regarding "s[i ... The middleware must control ... 
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Thinking Head Framework: An open architecture for human centred robotics
DC Herath, Z Zhang... - Information and Automation ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The dialog flow is controlled by a dialog manager which progresses the dialog based on the
user's response(s). The Thinking Head's dialog capabilities are driven by an automatic speech ...
[11] M. Broxvall, BS Seo, and WY Kwon, "The PEIS Kernel: A Middleware for Ubiquitous ... 
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[PDF] An Interaction Design Framework for Social Robots
[PDF] from roboticsproceedings.orgDF Glas, S Satake, T Kanda... - Proceedings of robotics ..., 2011 - roboticsproceedings.org
... C. Nonverbal communication For embodied robots, interaction includes not only dialog
management, but nonverbal communication as well. ... is not new, and in theory it should be possible
to implement a system like ours on top of popular modular middleware frameworks such ... 
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Linkage of Heterogeneous Knowledge Resources within In-store Dialogue Interaction
[PDF] from uni-saarland.deS Janzen, T Kowatsch, W Maass... - The Semantic Web-ISWC ..., 2010 - Springer
... a multimodal dialogue system that combines speech, gesture and mimics input [7] as well as
DELFOS, an dialogue manager system that ... On technical level, the semantic mediator is
implemented in TNT2 [20] - an OSGi (osgi.org) based middleware for mobile recommendation ... 
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Towards a transition to tangible commerce
[PDF] from uni-saarland.deW Maass, A Filler, S Janzen... - Digital Ecosystems and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... in the question formulation. At first, the dialogue manager queries the set of schema with
possible QuestionTags. ... The SPDO linker constitutes a linkage to the SPDO broker of the Tip
'n Tell middleware to query the product information in SPDO format. ... 
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[PDF] Decoupling smart environments
[PDF] from uni-rostock.deS Bader, G Ruscher, T Kirste - Proceedings of ..., 2010 - mmis.informatik.uni-rostock.de
... RELATED WORK The problem of building a middleware for distributed sys- tems has been
addressed by many authors. ... 4] (leveraging on multi-agent technology), the Galaxy Communicator
[3] (focusing on dis- tributed multi-modal dialogue management), EMBASSI and Page 2. ... 
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Model driven development approach to natural language generation systems
H Macedo - ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2010 - dl.acm.org
... to generate complete structural and behavioral code, (2) semi-formal specification of models
for for- mal verification, and (3) visual specification of abstract syntax for middleware languages
and data ... Content determination is performed out of the pipeline by a dialogue manager. ... 
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[PDF] Talking Agents: A distributed architecture for interactive installation-art works
[PDF] from assembla.comJMF de Alba... - Integrated Computer-Aided ..., 2010 - subversion.assembla.com
... interaction. Its definition is one of the main differences among different architectures. Dialog
System Middleware: DIPPER [19]. ? Dialogue Management. A dialogue is a prolonged interaction
in which references to previous information and context is made. ... 
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Availability and scalability in a messaging system in a manner transparent to the application
RT Limprecht, RD Hill, DE Langworthy... - US Patent ..., 2010 - Google Patents
... Processing Lechniques and Applications, Jun. 26-29, 2000, vol. V, pp. 2667-2673.
Horrell, Simon; "Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)," Enterprise Middleware, Jun.
1999, pp. 25-35. Al-Jaber, Hessa and Rotenstreich, Shmuel ... 
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[HTML] An Extensible Dialogue Script for a Robot Based on Unification of State-Transition Models
[HTML] from hindawi.comM Yosuke, F Hiroyuki... - Journal of Robotics, 2010 - hindawi.com
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Logo. Hindawi Publishing Corporation. ... 
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Multi-agent System (MAS) Applications in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Environments
N Sánchez-Pi, E Mangina, J Carbó... - Trends in Practical ..., 2010 - Springer
... usually carry out five main tasks: automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language
understanding (NLU), dialog management (DM), natural ... In this paper we presented middleware
architecture for AmI environment to manage location-sensing systems and dynamically ... 
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Message delivery with configurable assurances and features between two endpoints
RD Hill, RT Limprecht, HE Ramadan... - US Patent ..., 2010 - Google Patents
... V, pp. 2667-2673. Horrell, Simon; "Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)," Enterprise Middleware,
Jun. 1999, pp. ... No. 12/263,878, filedNov. 26,2008, Gueorgui Chkodrov. Zhao, Yuanyuan;
"Subscription Propagation in Highly-Available Publish/Subscribe Middleware"; 2004; pp. ... 
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Evaluation of AAL Platforms According to Architecture-Based Quality Attributes
P Antonino, D Schneider, C Hofmann... - Ambient Intelligence, 2011 - Springer
... Neverthe- less, there are few mandatory platform components on top of the middleware that make
the hosting node a critical one. The failure of such a node leads to the loss of certain functionalities.
For instance, if the node hosting the PERSONA Dialog Manager fails, explicit ... 
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[PDF] An api for voice user interfaces in pervasive environments
[PDF] from tu-darmstadt.deD Schnelle-Walka... - SiMPE 2010 ..., 2010 - atlas.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
... receives updates on recognized IR tags from the UMPC on a publish/subscribe channel from
the MundoCore middleware. ... to the framework supporting speech synthesis and recognition
in pervasive environments, we will have to ponder about distributed dialog management. ... 
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GENERATING AND TRANSFORMING CALL CONTROL ELEMENTS, DIALOG ELEMENTS, AND SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL MESSAGES FOR TELEPHONY ...
S MENON, A Tingley, L Nichols... - EP Patent ..., 2010 - freepatentsonline.com
... 1. The application server 110 includes a service logic execution engine (SLEE) 710, a call session
manager (CSM) 720, a dialog manager (DM) 730 ... in a distributed computing system that includes
a back-end component, eg, as a data server, and/or a middleware component, eg ... 
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Human-computer interaction in next generation ambient intelligent environments
T Heinroth, A Kameas, G Pruvost... - Intelligent Decision ..., 2011 - IOS Press
... Keywords: Ontologies, ontology alignment, multimodal interaction, spoken dialogue,
management 1. Introduction ... The Spoken Dialogue Manager (SDM) reacts upon the changes
done to its ontology and proac- tively utters the pertinent remarks. ... 
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Ambient intelligence and smart environments: A state of the art
[PDF] from ulst.ac.ukJC Augusto, H Nakashima... - Handbook of Ambient ..., 2010 - Springer
... Fi- nally, the chapter describes a number of important design issues for the future development
of middleware infrastructures ... The dialogue system may need to employ several dialogue
management strategies, user models and contextual information to interact with the user and ... 
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Talking Agents: A distributed architecture for interactive artistic installations
JM Fernández... - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2010 - IOS Press
... Its definition is one of the main differences among dif- ferent architectures. Dialog system
middleware: DIPPER [11]. 2.2.4. Dialogue management A dialogue is a prolonged interaction
in which ref- erences to previous information and context are made. ... 
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Distributed Listening in Automatic Speech Recognition
[PDF] from auburn.eduY McMillian - 2010 - etd.auburn.edu
... of multiple, parallel, yet physically separate automatic speech recognizers called listeners.
Distributed Listening also uses a piece of middleware, called an interpreter, which ... semantically
correct representation that could be passed to a dialogue manager module Page 23. 13 ... 
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Shared Experiences, Shared Representations, and the Implications for Applied Natural Language Processing
AJ Stent - Twenty-Fourth International FLAIRS Conference, 2011 - aaai.org
... The first is the architecture proposed in (Allen, Ferguson, and Stent 2001), and illustrated in Fig-
ure 4. This architecture stores representations often hidden inside a dialog manager in a separate
discourse ... 2010. Middleware for incremental processing in conversational agents. ... 
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Communicating with multiple users for embodied conversational agents in quiz game context
HH Huang, T Furukawa, H Ohashi... - International Journal of ..., 2010 - Inderscience
... A network communication middleware based on blackboard and XML message exchanging ...
Current AT and CLP are used to judge when to do what to whom by the dialog manager
component; animation commands are then generated by it to drive the character animator to ... 
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MVC (Model-View-Controller) based multi-modal authoring tool and development environment
JM Lucassen, SH Maes - US Patent 7,900,186, 2011 - Google Patents
... Manipulation 69 Session Manager -67 Interpreter 68 Adaptation Manager s s • 63 y MM Shell
Controller 71 Dialog Manager -64 70 ... user interaction by allowing multiple, coordinated information
channels-running either on the same or mul- tiple devices or middleware-to be ... 
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Developing Multimodal Web Interfaces by Encapsulating Their Content and Functionality within a Multimodal Shell
I Mlakar... - Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and ..., 2011 - Springer
... MONA focuses mainly on middleware for providing complete multimo- dal web-based solutions,
running on diverse mobile clients (eg ... The Dialog manager component models human-machine
interaction and, by using the device, service, and user context enables/disables the ... 
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[PDF] Enhancement of Conversational Agents by Means of Multimodal Interaction
[PDF] from ugr.esR López-Cózar, Z Callejas, G Espejo... - Conversational Agents and ..., 2011 - ugr.es
... Next, it explains the fusion and fission of multimodal information and focuses on the core
module of these agents: the dialogue manager. ... Third, it discusses techniques employed
to implement the core module of these agents: the dialogue manager. ... 
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TELEPHONY APPLICATION SERVICES
SH Maes - US Patent App. 12/791,129, 2010 - Google Patents
Page 1. <19) United States <12) Patent Application Publication <16) Pub. No.: US 2011/0134804
A1 US 201 l0l34804Al (54) (75) (73) (21) (22) (60) 2,2009. Maes (43) Pub. Date: Jun. 9, 2011
TELEPHONY APPLICATION SERVICES Publication Classi?cation , (51) Int. Cl. ... 
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Architecture for Building Conversational Agents that Support Collaborative Learning
R Kumar... - Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The users activate the tutor by clicking on it (touch stimuli). Connectivity between the
tutor and SecondLife envi- ronment is enabled using a HTTP Middleware [31]. The
component network of the SecondLife tutor, shown graphically in Fig. ... 
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universAAL-An Open and Consolidated AAL Platform
S Hanke, C Mayer, O Hoeftberger... - Ambient Assisted ..., 2011 - books.google.com
... The PERSONA platform comprises the PERSONA middleware and a set of mandatory functional
components consisting of a context history storage, a sit- uation reasoner, a pro?ling component,
a dialog manager, a service orchestrator, a gateway, and at least one I/O handler. ... 
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Constructing a decision support system for management of employee turnover risk
X Wang, H Wang, H Wang, L Zhang... - Information Technology and ..., 2011 - Springer
... evaluation and management. The model is mainly composed of three sub-systems:
Data Base Management System (DBMS), Model Base Management System (MBMS)
and Dialogue Management System (DMS). The model ... 
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Context-Aware Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
S Fitrianie, Z Yang, D Datcu, A Chitu... - Interactive Collaborative ..., 2010 - Springer
... Fig. 3 A schematic overview of the research coverage adapts the world view accordingly and
then sends it back to the network (Fig. 2). All modules are integrated in an ad-hoc fashion using
the iROS middleware [37]. The research reported here spans four fields (Fig. ... 
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[PDF] Basic tutorial tactics for virtual agents
[PDF] from uva.nlM Wißner, M Häring, G Mehlmann... - DynaLearn, EC FP7 ..., 2010 - hcs.science.uva.nl
... That is why we decided to base our dialog management on Hierarchical Concurrent State
Machines and the IDE SceneMaker. ... It acts as a middleware between the conceptual modeling
part of the DynaLearn software and the Flash Client which actually displays the virtual ... 
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From scenarios to "free-play": Evaluating the user's experience of ambient technologies in the home
J van Helvert... - Next Generation Intelligent ..., 2011 - books.google.com
Page 273. Chapter 8 From scenarios to "free-play": Evaluating the user's experience
of ambient technologies in the home J. van Helvert and C. Wagner Abstract The Ambient
Intelligence (AmI) vision of interactive home environments ... 
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Enabling efficient information discovery in a self-structured grid
[PDF] from syscall.orgA Brocco, A Malatras... - Future Generation Computer ..., 2010 - Elsevier
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Method for managing the provisioning of an interactive application, a related system and related server
M Vlad, A Levene, S Tillotson... - EP Patent ..., 2011 - freepatentsonline.com
... The dialogue manager is a scripting tool that allows building the messaging dialogues
with the end-user. ... In the future, ADSS will support more identification types, eg login,
cookies, IPTV set-top-box MAC address or a middleware identifier. ... 
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Monitoring elderly people with the Robocare Domestic Environment: Interaction synthesis and user evaluation
[PDF] from uwaterloo.caA Cesta, G Cortellessa, R Rasconi... - Computational ..., 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... A robotic mobile platform is located in the environment, namely a Pioneer2 equipped with Robot
Development Toolkit (RDK) functional middleware (Farinelli, Grisetti, and Iocchi 2006) that
integrates the capabilities of a simple path planner and a state-of-the-art Simultaneous ... 
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Client and speech detection system for intelligent infokiosk
A Ronzhin, A Karpov, I Kipyatkova... - Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2011 - Springer
... To allow efficient communication of sensor input and output data it is useful to have a middleware
layer that provides infrastructure services. ... of a virtual talking character - avatar [6]; (4) an interactive
graphical user interface with a touchscreen; (5) a dialogue manager that has ... 
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[PDF] Spoken Interaction with Synthetic Entities
[PDF] from utl.ptADF Ventura - 2010 - dspace.ist.utl.pt
... Dialogue Manager: Composed by components that maintain the dialogue state, plan the dia-
logue progression, maintain a domain representation, etc. ... of three modules, Input and Output
Manager, Dialogue Manager and Service Manager as seen in figure 2.2. ... 
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The playmate system
N Hawes, J Wyatt, M Sridharan... - Cognitive Systems. ..., 2010 - books.google.com
Page 373. 9 The PlayMate System Nick Hawes1, Jeremy L. Wyatt1, Mohan
Sridharan1, Marek Kopicki1, Somboon Hongeng1, Ian Calvert1, Aaron Sloman1,
Geert-Jan Kruij?2, Henrik Jacobsson2, Michael Brenner3, Danijel ... 
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Enhancing Accessibility through Speech Technologies on AAL Telemedicine Services for iTV
H Delgado, A Rodriguez-Alsina, A Gurguí... - Ambient ..., 2011 - Springer
... The system consists of an ASR engine and a TTS module, as well as a simple dialogue manager
that establishes the dialogue flow ... Tsekleves, E., Cosmas, J., Aggoun, A., Loo, J.: Converged digital
TV services: the role of middleware and future directions of interactive television. ... 
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A component framework for telecare and home automation
[PDF] from stir.ac.ukC Maternaghan... - Consumer Communications and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... which are left to the developer to create. The middleware simply offers services to a system, relying
on specialised hardware for input and custom interfaces for usability. ... Use of dialogue management
and Interactive Voice Response for extended speech interaction. ... 
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Emotion representation, analysis and synthesis in continuous space: A survey
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukH Gunes, B Schuller, M Pantic... - Automatic Face & ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The system runs in real-time, and combines incremental analysis of user behaviour, dialogue
management, and synthesis of speaker and ... oriented systems, using standard representation
formats and providing a Java and C++ wrapper around a message-oriented middleware. ... 
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[PDF] Y2 PhD Thesis proposal
[PDF] from cnr.itA Adamou - 2011 - stlab.istc.cnr.it
... Dialogue management approaches can be classified according to how task and dialogue models
are used [14]. ... paths through the network"; Information state and probabilistic approaches, such
as those using the MULTIPLATFORM architecture [30] as middleware; Plan-based ... 
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Thinking head: Towards human centred robotics
DC Herath, C Kroos, CJ Stevens... - ... Robotics & Vision ( ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... A. Event Driven Middleware In common with other dialogue platforms, we use an event- driven
framework, which has a number of ... example, the system may contain two dialogue managers,
with a "dialogue event" being sent to both, with each dialogue manager processing that ... 
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Building autonomous sensitive artificial listeners
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukM Schroder, E Bevacqua, R Cowie... - Affective Computing ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Accessible from www.psych.qub.ac.uk/PowerPointSAL www.semaine-db.eu www.semaine-db.
eu www.semaine-db.eu the operator informed the synthesis of agent turn- taking and dialogue
management. The same motive underlay the choice of labelling methods. ... 
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TECHNIQUES FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
S Ramakrishnan... - US Patent App. 12/859,798, 2010 - Google Patents
Page 1. <19) United States <12) Patent Application Publication <10) Pub. No.: US
2011/0167105 A1 US 20llOl67l05Al RAMAKRISHNAN et al. <43) Pub. Date: Jul.
7, 201 1 (54) TECHNIQUES FOR ENTERPRISE (30) Foreign ... 
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Ambient Assisted Nutritional Advisor for elderly people living at home
JP Lázaro, A Fides, A Navarro... - Engineering in Medicine ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... A component, the Nutritional Dialog Manager that acts as a link between the web world and
PERSONA is able to modify an internal ... on flash while the second one was tested with the complete
system considering software application based in PERSONA middleware and using ... 
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[PDF] Conversational Agents in Multi-Party Interactive Situations
[PDF] from rohitkumar.netR Kumar, CP Rosé, AW Black, IR Lane... - LTI, CMU, 2010 - thesis.rohitkumar.net
Page 1. Conversational Agents in Multi-Party Interactive Situations Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Rohit
Kumar Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 June 11, 2010 Committee Carolyn P. Rosé (Chair) ... 
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User and Situation
R Porzel - Contextual Computing, 2011 - Springer
Page 1. Chapter 4 User and Situation Studies on context in human language were
not predominant in the influential re- search direction that bases on an assumed
autonomy of syntax [Chomsky, 1965] and that explicitly excluded ... 
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Method and apparatus for providing and integrating high-performance message queues in a user interface environment
JE Stall - US Patent 7,716,680, 2010 - Google Patents
... Users' Group Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 26-29, 1999, pp. 51-58. Horrell, S.,
"Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)," Enterprise Middleware, Jul. 1999, pp. 20-31.
Michael, MM, and MX. Scott, "Simple, Fast, and Practical Non ... 
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Evaluation and Optimisation of Incremental Processors
[PDF] from elanguage.netT Baumann, O Buß... - Dialogue & Discourse, 2011 - swimt.elanguage.net
... Typical processing components in dialogue systems are speech recognition, parsers (often with
grammars that are more semantically than syntactically motivated), dialogue act recognition,
dialogue management, language generation and text-to-speech synthesis (Allen et al. ... 
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[PDF] Final research report on next generation policies
[PDF] from primelife.euP Samarati... - 2011 - primelife.eu
... with a single con- cept, a more complex definition (eg, a set, a disjunction, or a conjunction of
concepts); iii) recursive reasoning on credentials or their properties for expressing policies based
on chains of credentials and for supporting delegation; iv) dialog management, that is ... 
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[PDF] AmI Case-Design and Implementation (D4. 1)
[PDF] from unisg.chS Janzen, E Blomqvist, A Filler, S Gönül... - 2011 - alexandria.unisg.ch
Page 1. AmI Case - Design and Implementation (D4.1) www.iks-project.eu Interactive
Knowledge Stack for Semantic Content Management Systems Deliverable: D4.1 -
AmI Case Design and Implementation Delivery Date: 30.09 ... 
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Smart offices and intelligent decision rooms
[PDF] from ipp.ptC Ramos, G Marreiros, R Santos... - Handbook of Ambient ..., 2010 - Springer
... It is a metaoperating system or middleware infrastructure tying together devices that have their
own low-level operating system. ... As software infrastructure the following modules are included:
speech analysis and recognition, a dialogue management system (to translate user ... 
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[PDF] Model of Knowledge Based Interaction
[PDF] from iks-project.euM Romanelli, S Germesin... - 2010 - iks-project.eu
Page 1. 1 Model of Knowledge Based Interaction w w w .iks-project.eu Interactive
Knowledge Stack for Semantic Content Management Systems Deliverable: 3.1 -
Model of Knowledge Based Interaction Delivery Date: 08th July ... 
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Developing serious games for cultural heritage: a state-of-the-art review
EF Anderson, L McLoughlin, F Liarokapis, C Peters... - Virtual reality, 2010 - Springer
... Agilingua ATOM's dialogue management algorithm allows determining how the system will react:
asking questions, making suggestions, and/or confirming ... the virtual world of the game is provided
with realistic vegetation generated by the popular middleware system SpeedTree ... 
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[BOOK] Principles of information systems
[DOC] from just.edu.joR Stair... - 2011 - books.google.com
... 151 Operating Systems for Small Computers, Embedded Computers, and Special-Purpose
Devices 152 Utility Programs 153 Middleware 156 Application ... Decision Support System 438
The Database 438 The Model Base 439 The User Interface or Dialogue Manager 440 Group ... 
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[PDF] Continuous interaction with a virtual human
[PDF] from utwente.nlD Reidsma, KP Truong, H van Welbergen... - 2010 - eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl
Page 1. ENTERFACE'10, JULY 12TH - AUGUST 6TH, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
24 Continuous Interaction with a Virtual Human Dennis Reidsma, Khiet Truong, Herwin van
Welbergen, Daniel Neiberg, Sathish Pammi, Iwan de Kok, and Bart van Straalen ... 
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Integration of decision support systems to improve decision support performance
[PDF] from strath.ac.ukS Liu, AHB Duffy, RI Whitfield... - Knowledge and Information ..., 2010 - Springer
... DSS consists of three basic capability components: a data management component, a model
management component and a dialogue management component [101 ... known as cohesion, is
the "act or state of sticking together" or "the logical agreement" through a middleware [73 ... 
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Intelligent techniques for context-aware systems
[PDF] from uc3m.esN Sánchez Pi - 2011 - e-archivo.uc3m.es
... Nowadays, with advances in communication technologies, researches are focused in
the fields of designing new devices with increasing capabilities, implanting software
frameworks or middleware to make these devices interoperable. ... 
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[BOOK] Fundamentals of information systems
R Stair... - 2011 - books.google.com
... Gets a Grip on Pachinko Information 291 A Comparison of DSS and MIS 292 Components of
a Decision Support System 292 The Database 293 The Model Base 294 The User Interface or
Dialogue Manager 295 Group Support Systems 295 Characteristics of a GSS that ... 
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[PDF] Socially Capable Conversational Agents for Multi-Party Interactive Situations
[PDF] from rohitkumar.netR Kumar - 2011 - thesis.rohitkumar.net
Page 1. Socially Capable Conversational Agents for Multi-Party Interactive Situations Rohit Kumar
CMU-LTI-11-013 Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon
University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 www.lti.cs.cmu.edu ... 
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[PDF] The Dynamics of Conversation
[PDF] from bdwm.netR Kempson... - Dynamics, 2011 - attach3.bdwm.net
Page 1. The Dynamics of Conversation Ruth Kempson, (KCL, London) and Ronnie
Cann* (Edinburgh) with Purver, Gregoromichelaki, Eshghi, Healey, Meyer-Viol *Major
Research Fellowship F/00158/BF The Leverhulme Trust ... 
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An architectural decision modeling framework for service oriented architecture design
[PDF] from uni-stuttgart.deO Zimmermann - 2010 - elib.uni-stuttgart.de
... Each decision describes a concrete design issue which has sev- eral potential solutions
(alternatives) that are chosen from. Examples are the selec- tion of programming language and
tools, of architectural patterns, of integration technologies, and of middleware assets. ... 
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[PDF] Sistema de Diálogo Multimodal para una Aplicación de Inteligencia Ambiental en una Vivienda
[PDF] from ujaen.esN Ábalos, G Espejo, R López-Cózar... - ... de Lenguaje Natural, 2010 - ararat.ujaen.es
... Keywords: Spoken dialogue systems, multimodal systems, ambient intelligence, automatic speech
recognition, spoken language understanding, dialogue management, Text-To ... de trabajo futuro
se centra en el diseño e implementación de una capa de middleware que permita ... 
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Sistema de diálogo multimodal para una aplicación de inteligencia ambiental en una vivienda
[PDF] from ua.esN Ábalos Serrano, G Espejo Pérez... - 2010 - rua.ua.es
... Keywords: Spoken dialogue systems, multimodal systems, ambient intelligence, automatic speech
recognition, spoken language understanding, dialogue management, Text-To ... de trabajo futuro
se centra en el diseño e implementación de una capa de middleware que permita ... 
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A design patterns approach to adaptive user interfaces for users with special needs
M Peissner, A Schuller... - Human-Computer Interaction. Design ..., 2011 - Springer
... framework of the MyUI project, whereas other aspects are covered in further papers of this
conference proceedings: [16] discussing the human factors perspective, [17] describing the design
of the middleware architecture and ... Current interaction situation from dialogue manager ... 
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[PDF] Personal Assistant for Improving the Social Life of Mobility-Impaired Citizens
[PDF] from valedeestrelaonline.comCMNTG Pires - 2010 - valedeestrelaonline.com
Page 1. FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO Personal Assistant
for Improving the Social Life of Mobility-Impaired Citizens Carlos Miguel Nascimento Tonim
Galinho Pires Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering ... 
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Guiding user adaptation in serious games
J Westra, F Dignum... - Agents for games and simulations II, 2011 - Springer
... In: AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford,
CA (2002) 4. Brusk, J., Lager, T., Hjalmarsson, A., Wik, P.: Deal: dialogue management in
scxml for believable game characters. ... A middleware for developing ... 
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An Annotated Bibliography of Studies and Reports Produced by the Advanced Decision Architectures Consortium of the Collaborative Technology Alliance from 2001 ...
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Page 1. An Annotated Bibliography of Studies and Reports Produced by the Advanced
Decision Architectures Consortium of the Collaborative Technology Alliance From 2001
to 2010 by Sam E. Middlebrooks, Ph.D. ARL-SR-219 December 2010 ... 
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Methods, Apparatus, and Systems for Enabling Feedback-Dependent Transactions
RR Reisman - US Patent 20,110,295,722, 2011 - freepatentsonline.com
... Services (JMS), or other application program interfaces (APIs) or remote messaging and method
invocation middleware techniques, or ... Embodiments can optionally integrate all buyer-seller dialogs
into one or more unified dialog management processes (possibly integrating ... 
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[PDF] Universita degli Studi di Torino
[PDF] from unito.itD Cardillo - 2010 - di.unito.it
... Passing through primitive mashup middleware going to middleware with a composite architectural structure and joining them to- gether with learning environment, it happens the birth of a pro-active and responsive ambient learning system having mashup providing relevant ... 
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Keeping the trainee on track
[PDF] from psu.eduJ Westra, F Dignum... - ... Intelligence and Games (CIG ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. Keeping the Trainee on Track Joost Westra, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum
Abstract-Serious games and other training applications have the requirement that
they should be suitable for trainees with different skill levels. ... 
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