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The goal of the Conversational Interfaces project at CSLI is to develop a general purpose architecture which supports multi-modal dialogues with complex devices, services, and applications. We are developing generic dialogue management software which supports collaborative activities between a human and devices. Our systems use a common software base consisting of the Open Agent Architecture, Nuance speech recogniser, Gemini (SRI’s parser and generator), Festival speech synthesis, and CSLI’s “Architecture for Conversational Intelligence” (ACI). This chapter focuses on one application of this architecture - an intelligent tutoring system for shipboard damage control. We discuss the benefits of adopting this architecture for intelligent tutoring.
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Clark, B. et al. (2005). A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In: van Kuppevelt, J.C.J., Dybkjær, L., Bernsen, N.O. (eds) Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3933-6_13
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