Asking the Right Questions: Task Hierarchy Predictive Traversal Mechanisms for Mixed Initiative Dialog Management

Juan M. Huerta

2004

Abstract

This paper describes an approach for building conversational applications that dynamically adjust to the user’s level of expertise based on the user’s responses. In our method, the Dialog Manager interacts with the application user through a mechanism that adjusts the prompts presented to the user based on a hierarchical model of the domain, the recent interaction history, and the known complexity of the domain itself. The goal is to present a conversational modality for experienced or confident users, and a simpler Directed Dialog experience for the more inexperienced users, and to dynamically identify these levels of expertise from the user’s utterances. Our method uses a task hierarchy as a representation of the domain and follows a feedback control system framework to traverse of this tree. We illustrate these mechanisms with a simple sample domain based on a car rental application.

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M. Huerta J. (2004). Asking the Right Questions: Task Hierarchy Predictive Traversal Mechanisms for Mixed Initiative Dialog Management . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-05-8, pages 106-115. DOI: 10.5220/0002681301060115


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@conference{nlucs04,
author={Juan M. Huerta},
title={Asking the Right Questions: Task Hierarchy Predictive Traversal Mechanisms for Mixed Initiative Dialog Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={106-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002681301060115},
isbn={972-8865-05-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Asking the Right Questions: Task Hierarchy Predictive Traversal Mechanisms for Mixed Initiative Dialog Management
SN - 972-8865-05-8
AU - M. Huerta J.
PY - 2004
SP - 106
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0002681301060115