Distributed Dialogue Management in a Blackboard Architecture

This paper describes a distributed dialogue management scheme for speechbased information seeking dialogue. The dialogue management is distributed to several components, supported by a general blackboard-type architecture for speech systems. By breaking down the dialogue management, we can achieve more general solutions and support sophisticated decision making algorithms.

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