A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Abstract

The goal of the Conversational Interfaces project at CSLI is to developa general purpose architecture which supports multi-modal dialogues withcomplex devices, services, and applications. We are developing genericdialogue management software which supports collaborative activitiesbetween a human and devices. Our systems use a common software baseconsisting of the Open Agent Architecture, Nuance speech recogniser,Gemini (SRI's parser and generator), Festival speech synthesis, andCSLI's ``Architecture for Conversational Intelligence{''} (ACI). Thischapter focuses on one application of this architecture - an intelligenttutoring system for shipboard damage control. We discuss the benefits ofadopting this architecture for intelligent tutoring.