RE: pointer to an earlier workshop on Conversational Applications

Hi Dirk,

Those are good suggestions. We didn't look at those during the workshop
because we were looking for problems with current standards. Finding
approaches that would address the problems would be a later step, which we
didn't get to. Those approaches would be interesting to look at in this
group, though, depending on what we decide the requirements are. 

Best,

Debbie

 

From: Dirk Schnelle-Walka [mailto:dirk.schnelle@jvoicexml.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 8:56 AM
To: public-voiceinteraction@w3.org
Subject: RE: pointer to an earlier workshop on Conversational Applications

 

Debbie,

 

that sounds pretty interesting.

 

Just a short question to UC-4

Such a semantic representation is already available with the Information
State Update Approach from Traum as well as the Information State introduced
by Young for the Partially observable Markov Decision Process.

 

Did you consider these approaches in your discussion?

 

Dirk

 

From: Deborah Dahl [mailto:dahl@conversational-technologies.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 3:50 PM
To: public-voiceinteraction@w3.org
Subject: pointer to an earlier workshop on Conversational Applications

 

The W3C held a workshop in 2010 on Conversational Applications
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/summary.html that might have some useful
ideas for this group. Even though this was basically before virtual
assistants became common, I think there were some ideas for new standards
that might be relevant to this group's work. The attendees came up with 12
use cases (not really use cases, but problems with the current standards). I
though UC-1 (new ways of defining language models), UC-4 (semantic
representation of dialog state) and UC-15 (support for problem solving
applications) were especially relevant.