The Conversational Interface

By M. McTear, Z. Callejas, D. Griol. 2016

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Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction (2016, background): “…(Asher and Lascarides 2003), which aim to model the full generality of language use, work on interaction management has concentrated primarily on developing end-to-end systems and on evaluating them through interaction with human users (Jokinen and McTear 2009; McTear, Callejas, and Griol 2016).”
Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018, background): “Researchers’ adoption of such technologies as “ conversational interfaces” [20] (our emphasis) resonates in many ways with the advertised user experience of such devices: specifically as technologies that it is possible to ‘have a conversation’ with and ‘just ask’ questions of.”
A survey on empathetic dialogue systems (2020, background): “More importantly, being empathetic is a necessary step for the dialogue agent to be perceived as a social character by users [3].”