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  <Title>Dialogue Interaction with the DARPA Communicator Infrastructure: The Development of Useful Software</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To support engaging human users in robust, mixed-initiative speech dialogue interactions which reach beyond current capabilities in dialogue systems, the DARPA Communicator program [1] is funding the development of a distributed message-passing infrastructure for dialogue systems which all Communicator participants are using. In this presentation, we describe the features of and requirements for a genuinely useful software infrastructure for this purpose.</Paragraph>
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