Collaborative Dialogue for Controlling Autonomous Systems
Oliver Lemon, Lawrence Cavedon, Alexander Gruenstein, Stanley Peters · 2002
We claim that a natural dialogue interface to a semi-autonomous intelligent agent has important advantages, espe-cially when operating in real-time complex dynamic environ-ments involving multiple concurrent tasks and activities. We discuss some of the requirements of such a dialogue interface, and describe some of the features of a working system built at CSLI, focusing on the data-structures and techniques used to manage multiple interleaved threads of conversation about concurrent activities and their execution status.1 Dialogue Interfaces for Autonomous Systems We believe there is a strong case for natural dialogue in-terfaces for autonomous systems performing complex tasks in unpredictable dynamic environments. Some authors (e.g. (Schneiderman 2000)) have argued against speech or natural