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  <Title>Dialogue complexity with portability? Research directions for the Information State approach</Title>
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4 Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Significant effort has been devoted to defining our mutable language capability. This capability provides both a transition path from TRINDIKit scripts and a means for specifying module interfaces and information state structure using a common XML representation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our intent is to provide support for several different transport mechanisms to explore the limitations of our approach. To date, we have completed an initial interface definition specification and have developed templates to realize those interfaces with the OAA.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> DARPA's Galaxy Communicator is the second transport mechanism we will be considering.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> We have devoted considerable time to up-front consideration of scripting languages, portable code generation, and module communications, and are now beginning the task of implementing our versions of the TRINDIKit scripting languages. Our target realization for these scripts is a combination of Java code and expert systems that can be executed within a Java program. null We plan to port and formally evaluate our dialogue toolkit within three domains (question-answering, automated tutoring, and multimodal robot control). Our dialogue toolkit will be openly available, as well as sample implementations for each of these domains.</Paragraph>
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