TY - JOUR
T1 - The TRAINS project
T2 - A case study in building a conversational planning agent
AU - Allen, James F.
AU - Schubert, Lenhart K.
AU - Ferguson, George
AU - Heeman, Peter
AU - Hwang, Chung Hee
AU - Kato, Tsuneaki
AU - Light, Marc
AU - Martin, Nathaniel
AU - Miller, Bradford
AU - Poesio, Massimo
AU - Traum, David R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The TRAINS project has been funded in part by ONRJARPA grant NOOO 14-92-1-1512, U.S. Air Force-Rome Laboratory research contract F30602-91-C-OOIO, and NSF grant lRI-9Q-13160.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The TRAINS project is an effort to build a conversationally proficient planning assistant. A key part of the project is the construction of the TRAINS system, which provides the research platform for a wide range of issues in natural language understanding, mixed-initiative planning systems, and representing and reasoning about time, actions and events. Four years have now passed since the beginning of the project. Each year a demonstration system has been produced that focused on a dialogue that illustrates particular aspects of the research. The commitment to building complete integrated systems is a significant overhead on the research, but it is considered essential to guarantee that the results constitute real progress in the field. This paper describes the goals of the project, and the experience with the effort so far.
AB - The TRAINS project is an effort to build a conversationally proficient planning assistant. A key part of the project is the construction of the TRAINS system, which provides the research platform for a wide range of issues in natural language understanding, mixed-initiative planning systems, and representing and reasoning about time, actions and events. Four years have now passed since the beginning of the project. Each year a demonstration system has been produced that focused on a dialogue that illustrates particular aspects of the research. The commitment to building complete integrated systems is a significant overhead on the research, but it is considered essential to guarantee that the results constitute real progress in the field. This paper describes the goals of the project, and the experience with the effort so far.
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U2 - 10.1080/09528139508953799
DO - 10.1080/09528139508953799
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951576265
SN - 0952-813X
VL - 7
SP - 7
EP - 48
JO - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
JF - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
IS - 1
ER -