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Flipper: An Information State Component for Spoken Dialogue Systems

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011)

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This paper introduces Flipper, an specification language and interpreter for Information State Update rules that can be used for developing spoken dialogue systems and embodied conversational agents. The system uses XML-templates to modify the information state and to select behaviours to perform.

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ter Maat, M., Heylen, D. (2011). Flipper: An Information State Component for Spoken Dialogue Systems. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_67

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