Starting to Cook a Coaching Dialogue System in the Olympus framework

Pardal, Joana Paulo; Mamede, Nuno J.

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“…Ontology has been adopted in various dialogue systems. Besides Natural Language Processing, recent work on the application of ontology in dialogue systems mainly uses ontology as the knowledge source, such as the ontology-driven dialogue system for agent training [12], the ontology-based framework for health counseling dialogue systems [13], the CookCoach dialogue system in which the ontology for cooking domain can be integrated in the dialogue system [14], and the ontology based requirement model for interactive requirement elicitation [15]. However each of them focuses on a particular domain and none supports domain independent dialogue systems.…”

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“…The ontology captures the knowledge in health behaviour change counselling. In this approach, the ontology and task model is disconnected and the ontology serves as domain ontology only.Pardal and Mamede[14] intended to extend a dialogue system to new knowledge domains by using ontologies. They created the Cookcoach dialogue system on the Carnegie Mellon University OLYMPUS framework[54] which incorporates the RAVENCLAW dialogue management[11].…”

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A task ontology model for domain independent dialogue management

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2012

2012 IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS) Proceedin

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Dialogue systems have been a rapidly growing area in both scientific research and commercial application since 1990s. They can be applied in various fields, such as business, healthcare and education, etc. Due to its complexity, the design and development of a dialogue system is time consuming and costly. It is highly desirable for a generic dialogue system, especially dialogue management that is independent of specific domains. Methods or architecture for domain independent dialogue systems have been proposed by previous research in literature, however each of them has its own limitations and none has been widely adopted. This paper presents a new approach, a task ontology model for domain independent dialogue management. An abstract task ontology model is developed and based on this model a generic dialogue manager is created. Knowledge about a specific task is modeled in its task ontology and retrieved by an ontology reasoning component situated in the dialogue manager. Thus the dialogue manager is task or domain independent. A dialogue system is developed based on the proposed method and experimented with two different tasks: the book borrowing and the online train ticket booking. The experiment results indicate that the dialogue system can be readily applied to tasks from different domains without any modification. This paper has implications on future research and development of domain independent dialogue systems. It also contributes to the knowledge and dialogue system reuse and will have impact on the application of dialogue systems in a wider range of areas. v DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to my dear husband and daughter for their endless love and support. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Xiaobu Yuan for his patience, enthusiasm and instruction on my study and research in the long journey towards the Master's Degree in Computer Science. Without his guidance, I could not image accomplishing this thesis. I also want to express my appreciation to Dr. Morrissey for her insightful comments and encouragement throughout the work. In addition, I would like to thank my classmates and friends who kindly helped and encouraged me during the completion of the thesis as well as my colleagues, especially Gwen and Cathy for their continuous support on my study. vii

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