Designing a domain independent platform of spoken dialogue system

Our purpose is to construct a domain independent platform for task-oriented spoken dialogue system. It is expected to generalize architecture of spoken dialogue system for making it easy to develop a system that can support and act to solve problems for user by using speech input and output. In this research, we propose a method of describing hierarchically internal knowledge for solving problems and one for controlling dialogue as rules. A system designer only should describe two types of rules those are called problem-solving rules and action-management rules. And we designed and implemented the platform and evaluated how well the rules can express knowledge.