DialBB: A Dialogue System Development Framework as an Educational Material

Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani


Abstract
We demonstrate DialBB, a dialogue system development framework, which we have been building as an educational material for dialogue system technology. Building a dialogue system requires the adoption of an appropriate architecture depending on the application and the integration of various technologies. However, this is not easy for those who have just started learning dialogue system technology. Therefore, there is a demand for educational materials that integrate various technologies to build dialogue systems, because traditional dialogue system development frameworks were not designed for educational purposes. DialBB enables the development of dialogue systems by combining modules called building blocks. After understanding sample applications, learners can easily build simple systems using built-in blocks and can build advanced systems using their own developed blocks.
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2024.sigdial-1.56
Volume:
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
September
Year:
2024
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Kyoto, Japan
Editors:
Tatsuya Kawahara, Vera Demberg, Stefan Ultes, Koji Inoue, Shikib Mehri, David Howcroft, Kazunori Komatani
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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664–668
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial-1.56
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.56
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Mikio Nakano and Kazunori Komatani. 2024. DialBB: A Dialogue System Development Framework as an Educational Material. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 664–668, Kyoto, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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