The Middle Parts of a Conversational System
- The open question is what are the middle bits.
- From the human perspective, the middle bits are
everything but NLG and NLU.
- That includes, at least, planning, vision, motion, learning,
problem solving, common sense reasoning, and knowledge both general
and specific.
- A simpler answer is that the middle bits depend on the
application.
- On the slim side, the system needs to keep track of
conversational goals, and sort out turn taking.
- The system is probably also going to have some
non-conversational component; what the system does.
