Creating natural dialogs in the carnegie mellon communicator system
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The Carnegie Mellon Communicator system helps users create complex travel itineraries through a conversational interface. Itineraries consist of (multi-leg) flights, hotel and car reservations and are built from actual travel information for North America, obtained from the Web. The system manages dialog using a schema-based approach. Schemas correspond to major units of task information (such as a flight leg) and define conversational topics, or foci of interaction, meaningful to the user.
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