The VoiceXML Forum is
holding a four-hour workshop on advanced dialogs for voice-activated systems on
February 22, 2007 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the San Francisco Hilton &
Towers. The purpose of the workshop is
to promote technology exchange among spoken language experts and to explore
what dialog specification concepts should be standardized for deploying
advanced voice-activated services.
The Workshop on Advanced
Dialogs is supported by the VoiceXML Forum Tools Committee and will held as
part of SpeechTEK West 2007 (but will not be available to general SpeechTEK
participants). To receive an
invitation, please submit a one-page position paper stating your view on at
least one of the following questions:
1.
What new language constructs are needed to support advanced dialogs?
2.
Where do standard programming languages such as VoiceXML, Java, JSP
etc., need to be extended or enhanced to better support advanced dialogs?
3.
What is the best approach (plan-based reasoning, rule-based systems,
goal-oriented design, world modeling, etc.), perhaps given a particular
circumstance, for creating advanced voice-activated services and why?
4.
Do you have an example of a case where an advanced dialog was
successfully deployed for live customers?
What dialog design principles made this deployment a success?
Accepted position papers
will be published at www.voicexml.org
and participants will be invited to briefly summarize their paper (no slides
required) at the workshop. Attendees
will analyze alternative approaches and suggest recommendations for how
standards should proceed for supporting advanced dialogs.
Papers should be sent to
david(AT)speechphone.com by December
15, 2006. A minimum one-day SpeechTEK
registration is required for workshop participants (http://www.speechtek.com).
Review Committee:
Jim Larson – Co-chair W3C Voice Browser Working Group
Bill Scholz – VoiceXML Tools Committee
John Tadlock – AT&T
David Thomson – VoiceXML Tools Committee
Charter: The Advanced Dialog Working Group (part of
the VoiceXML Forum Tools Committee) has the following objectives:
1.
To define the XML-based languages needed to represent Advanced Dialogs
and implement applications.
2.
To provide input to the VoiceXML Forum Metalanguage group regarding what
is needed to allow the metalanguage specification to be able to support
Advanced Dialogs.
3.
To encourage standardization and adoption of Advanced Dialog concepts.
4.
To speed the transfer of Advanced Dialog concepts from research to
industry.
Advanced Dialog: A voice user interface specification that
cannot efficiently be represented by a finite state machine.
Dates:
Paper
submission: December 15, 2006
Acceptance
notification: December 22, 2006
Workshop: February 22, 2007