Conversational Systems
- The Turing test (Loebner prize) requires that the machine has
sophisticated conversational abilities.
- Eliza is an old but well known conversational system.
- Eliza is not really useful for a real world task,
but conversational systems range from simple to complex.
- Examples include phone "conversations" by pressing buttons like
my bank, and reduced language interfaces.
- The TRAINS Project: A Case study in building a conversational
planning agent (1995) J of Experimental and Theoretical AI 7
is an example of a complex conversational system.
- It has sophisticated Natural Language Understanding and
NL Generation capabilities.
- Perhaps more importantly, it has a sophisticated planning system
that underlies the task.
- The task is to have a user schedule trains.
