Dialog Management Middleware

Notes:

Middleware is software that sits between two different systems or applications and provides a way for them to communicate and exchange data. It acts as a “middle layer” that enables the different systems to work together, and it is often used to facilitate communication between different types of software or hardware.

On the other hand, a framework is a set of tools and resources that is used to support the development of applications. It provides a structure or foundation upon which applications can be built, and it often includes a range of tools and resources such as libraries, APIs, and other components that developers can use to create applications more efficiently.

Dialog management middleware is software that helps to manage and control the flow of conversation between a chatbot and a user. Here are a few examples of dialog management middleware:

Dialogflow: Dialogflow is a cloud-based platform developed by Google that allows developers to build, deploy, and manage chatbots and other conversational interfaces. It provides a range of tools and resources for building chatbots, including a natural language processing engine, integration with a variety of messaging platforms, and tools for managing and analyzing chatbot conversations.
IBM Watson Assistant: IBM Watson Assistant is a chatbot development platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and manage chatbots and other conversational interfaces. It provides a range of tools and resources for building chatbots, including a natural language processing engine, integration with a variety of messaging platforms, and tools for managing and analyzing chatbot conversations.
Microsoft Bot Framework: The Microsoft Bot Framework is a set of tools and services for building chatbots and other conversational interfaces. It includes a range of tools for building chatbots, including a natural language processing engine, integration with a variety of messaging platforms, and tools for managing and analyzing chatbot conversations.
Rasa: Rasa is an open-source framework for building chatbots and other conversational interfaces. It provides a range of tools and resources for building chatbots, including a natural language processing engine, integration with a variety of messaging platforms, and tools for managing and analyzing chatbot conversations.

Resources:

inpro.tk .. incremental situated spoken interaction processing

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Adaptive grounding and dialogue management for autonomous conversational assistants for elderly users R Yaghoubzadeh, K Pitsch, S Kopp – Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2015 – Springer … 3). It serves as the interface for communication between input processing, dialogue management proper, and behavior planning and realization. … Entries on the board have a payload content (usually an incremental unit in our middleware IPAACA [ 12 ]) as well a as start and end … Cited by 2

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Component pluggable dialogue framework and its application to social robots R Jiang, YK Tan, DK Limbu, TA Dung, H Li – Natural Interaction with …, 2014 – Springer … To work with the proposed dialogue framework, the minimum requirement for a component is that it must be able to communicate with the dialogue manager, any other component in the framework, or remote agent through middleware interface. … Cited by 7 Related articles All 5 versions

Simulating human-robot interactions for dialogue strategy learning G Milliez, E Ferreira, M Fiore, R Alami… – Simulation, Modeling, and …, 2014 – Springer … environment to both collect a multimodal situated dialogue corpus and to perform an efficient reinforcement learning-based dialogue management optimisation procedure. … This data is sent using a middleware and is then read by SPARK to position the object in its representation … Cited by 4 Related articles All 29 versions

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Application of Verbal Intelligence in Dialog Systems for Multimodal Interaction F Nothdurft, F Honold, K Zablotskaya… – Intelligent …, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … Before explaining the dialog manager and its components in detail, we will describe the used framework (see Fig.1) for interaction and … The communication between dialog, interaction, and knowl- edge management is handled by a typical message-oriented middleware [10]. … Related articles All 3 versions

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