An easy method to make dialogue systems incremental
Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche, Fabrice Lefèvre · 2014
Incrementality as a way of managing the interactions between a dialogue system and its users has been shown to have concrete advantages over the traditional turn-taking frame. Incremental systems are more reactive, more human-like, of-fer a better user experience and allow the user to correct errors faster, hence avoid-ing desynchronisations. Several incremen-tal models have been proposed, however, their core underlying architecture is dif-ferent from the classical dialogue systems. As a result, they have to be implemented from scratch. In this paper, we propose a method to transform traditional dialogue systems into incremental ones. A new module, called the Scheduler is inserted between the client and the service so that from the client’s point of view, the sys-tem behaves incrementally, even though the service does not. 1