A research platform for multi-agent dialogue dynamics

Author

Harris, Thomas K. ; Banerjee, Satanjeev ; Rudnicky, Alexander I. ; Sison, June ; Bodine, Kerry ; Black, Alan W.

Author_Institution

Language Technol. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

502

Abstract

Dialogue agents are often designed with the tacit assumption that at any time, there is only one agent and one human, and that their communication channel is exclusive. We are interested in evaluating complications that arise when multiple heterogeneous dialogue agents interact with one or more human interlocutors, and their communication channel is necessarily shared. In This work we describe a multi-agent dialogue test-bed that we have implemented to study such dialogue coordination issues. We also describe an initial pilot study that uses this test-bed to experiment with a very simple addressee disambiguation algorithm.

Keywords

interactive systems; multi-agent systems; speech-based user interfaces; addressee disambiguation algorithm; communication channel; dialogue coordination issues; human interlocutors; multiagent dialogue dynamics; multiagent dialogue test bed; multiple heterogeneous dialogue agents; Automatic speech recognition; Communication channels; Computer interfaces; Humans; Man machine systems; Natural languages; Robot kinematics; Robotics and automation; Speech recognition; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2004. ROMAN 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2004.1374810

Filename

1374810