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Introduction

The mission of the Conversational Interfaces Community Group is to enable web developers, content writers, and AI researchers to collaborate and share conversational experiences. Most dialogue systems serve interactive experiences in their own domain specific and often proprietary language, causing a fragmented zoo of formats. For example, Google Home or Alexa do not share a common intermediate representation, which makes writing wide-spread content inaccessible to the mass audience. We study existing specs for authoring dialogue and design standards to harness proven techniques into common agreement. The charter may be found here: https://conversational-interfaces.github.io/charter/.

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Contributions

Published work

1. Dialogue Manager Programming Language (DMPL) [Final Report]
2. DM Script (DMS) [Final Report]

In progress

1. Personal Utility Model [GitHub]
2. Behavior constraint definition language

To do

Want to help? Here are some ideas:

1. API for bot UI (see GitHub Issue)
2. Procedural animation syntax and semantics
3. Version control mechanism for dialogue
4. Visualization techniques of dialogue flow
5. Recommendations/guidance for UI in text-based situations (see GitHub Issue)
6. UI guidelines of multi-modal conversational interfaces
7. Benchmarking conversations for systems development (see GitHub Issue)
8. Inter-bot communication protocol (managing a federation of bots/skills) (see GitHub Issue)

Feel free to start a new Issue on any topic.