Conquest – An Open-Source Dialog System for Conferences

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  • Sergio Grau Puerto ,
  • David Huggins-Daines ,
  • Venkatesh Keri ,
  • Gopala Krishna ,
  • Rohit Kumar ,
  • Antoine Raux ,
  • Stefanie Tomko

Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007, Rochester, NY |

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We describe ConQuest, an open-source, reusable spoken dialog system that provides technical program information during conferences. The system uses a transparent, modular and open infrastructure, and aims to enable applied research in spoken language interfaces. The conference domain is a good platform for applied research since it permits periodical redeployments and evaluations with a real user-base. In this paper, we describe the system’s functionality, overall architecture, and we discuss two initial deployments.