Incremental Dialogue Management in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Incremental dialogue management is the problem of deciding which action a conversational agent or robot should take, and precisely when, while an utterance is still unfolding word by word rather than after it completes. Students learn the Incremental Unit framework of add, revoke, and commit operations over a network of partial results, why revisability matters for turn-taking and clarification in human-robot interaction, and why the monotonic processing of large language models makes incremental decision-making an open challenge.
Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models
This survey reviews spoken dialogue systems that process language incrementally, word by word or below, rather than waiting for a complete utterance, and organizes the field around the Incremental Un…