NADIA: A simplified approach towards the development of natural dialogue systems

Abstract

Spoken Dialogue Systems have enormously improved during the last couple of years and gave rise to voice-controlled mobile assistants. While the abilities of these systems are very sophisticated, there is a lack of tools enabling us to easily describe a natural dialogue that can afterwards be processed by a dialogue engine without having to programme the engine itself. In this paper we present NADIA, a dialogue engine that can process an easy to define XML-based dialogue description.