An architecture for more realistic conversational systems

By James F. Allen, G. Ferguson, Amanda Stent. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2001

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Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices (2011, background): “There is a significant number of practical (Dahl, 2004) and more advanced (Pellom et al., 2001; Allen et al., 1995, 1996, 2001; Wahlster, 2000; Sidner, 2004, among others) system descriptions.”
Characterizing Online Discussion Using Coarse Discourse Sequences (2017, methodology): “Researchers have used discourse acts towards applications such as building conversational bots (Allen, Ferguson, and Stent 2001) and summarizing spoken discourse (Murray et al. 2006).”
Toward Conversational Human-Computer Interaction (2001, background): “More details on the system architecture can be found in Allen, Ferguson, and Stent (2001).”
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases (2003, background): “In recent years significant advances have been made in dialog management (see work on spoken-language dialog systems [16, 1] and tutorial systems [7]), yet the core problem of reliably understanding a single sentence is far from solved.”