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  <Title>A Compact Architecture for Dialogue Management Based on Scripts and Meta-Outputs</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We describe an architecture for spoken dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems that transforms speech~signals through successive representations of linguistic, dialogue, and domain knowledge. Each step produces an output, and a meta-output describing the transformation, with an executable program in a simple scripting language as the final result. The output/meta-output distinction permits perspicuous treatment of diverse tasks such as resolving pronouns, correcting user misconceptions, and optimizing scripts.</Paragraph>
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