A multimodal interactive system based on hierarchical Model-View-Controller architecture

Multimodal interactive systems are expected to be used widely. To realize life-like agents or humanoid robots, flexible architecture for integrating software modules is necessary. Many frameworks are proposed.

  • Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff. 2000. Galaxy-II as an Architecture for Spoken Dialogue Evaluation. Proceedings of Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp.42-50.
  • Yosuke Matsusaka, Kentaro Oku, Tetsunori Kobayashi. 2003. Design and Implementation of Data Sharing Architecture for Multi-Functional Robot Development. Trans. of IEICE, Vol.J86-D1, No.5, pp.318-329 (in Japanese).
  • SRI International, The Open Agent Architecture. http://www.ai.sri.com/~oaa/

In this post, the following topics related to Galatea Toolkit are discussed;

  1. A developer should be able to customize a parameter which influences many modules within the system easily.
  2. A developer who doesn’t have knowledge concerning the speech technology should be able to develop the spoken dialog applications efficiently.

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