Computational Models for Multiparty Turn-Taking
Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz · 2010
We describe a computational framework for modeling and managing turn-taking in open-world spoken dialog systems. We present a rep-resentation and methodology for tracking the conversational dynamics in multiparty interac-tions, making floor control decisions, and ren-dering these decisions into appropriate behav-iors. We show how the approach enables an em-bodied conversational agent to participate in multiparty interactions, and to handle a diversity of natural turn-taking phenomena, including multiparty floor management, barge-ins, restarts, and continuations. Finally, we discuss results and lessons learned from experiments. 1