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title = "{C}ogent: A Generic Dialogue System Shell Based on a Collaborative Problem Solving Model",
author = "Galescu, Lucian and
Teng, Choh Man and
Allen, James and
Perera, Ian",
editor = "Komatani, Kazunori and
Litman, Diane and
Yu, Kai and
Papangelis, Alex and
Cavedon, Lawrence and
Nakano, Mikio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Annual {SIG}dial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5048",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5048",
pages = "400--409",
abstract = "The bulk of current research in dialogue systems is focused on fairly simple task models, primarily state-based. Progress on developing dialogue systems for more complex tasks has been limited by the lack generic toolkits to build from. In this paper we report on our development from the ground up of a new dialogue model based on collaborative problem solving. We implemented the model in a dialogue system shell (Cogent) that al-lows developers to plug in problem-solving agents to create dialogue systems in new domains. The Cogent shell has now been used by several independent teams of researchers to develop dialogue systems in different domains, with varied lexicons and interaction style, each with their own problem-solving back-end. We believe this to be the first practical demonstration of the feasibility of a CPS-based dialogue system shell.",
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%T Cogent: A Generic Dialogue System Shell Based on a Collaborative Problem Solving Model
%A Galescu, Lucian
%A Teng, Choh Man
%A Allen, James
%A Perera, Ian
%Y Komatani, Kazunori
%Y Litman, Diane
%Y Yu, Kai
%Y Papangelis, Alex
%Y Cavedon, Lawrence
%Y Nakano, Mikio
%S Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2018
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Melbourne, Australia
%F galescu-etal-2018-cogent
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%P 400-409
Markdown (Informal)
[Cogent: A Generic Dialogue System Shell Based on a Collaborative Problem Solving Model](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5048) (Galescu et al., SIGDIAL 2018)
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