Integraci on de los Sistemas de Di alogo para la Interacci on en Redes Sociales Spoken Dialogue Systems for its Interaction in Social Networks

With the development of so-called Web 2.0 and the great interest and extension that social networks have now reached, a large number of applications that originate new forms of communication and interaction among users have been quickly introduced. Furthermore, research in the eld of dialogue systems currently have a number of challenges related to the introduction of new input and output modalities, as well as applications and methodologies that allow the personalization of these systems to the specic characteristics and preferences of each user. Social networks and, in particular virtual worlds, have thus a perfect setting to carry out these research objectives. In this paper we present a study about the integration of dialog systems with social networks, describing the use of a dialogue system that provides academic information to develop a conversational bot in the Second Life virtual world.