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  <Title>A Compact Architecture for Dialogue Management Based on Scripts and Meta-Outputs</Title>
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6 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described a generic architecture for spoken language dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous agents, based on the standard notion of translating to successively deeper levels of representation. The novel aspects of our scheme center around two ideas: first, that the final output representations are best conceptualized not as logical expressions but rather as programs in a scripting language; second, that steps in the translation process should produce not only a simple output, but also meta-information describing how the output was produced. We have presented examples suggesting how several apparently diverse types of dialogue behavior can be captured simply within our framework, and outlined a prototype implementation of the scheme.</Paragraph>
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