@inproceedings{lala-etal-2025-scriptboard,
    title = "{S}cript{B}oard: Designing modern spoken dialogue systems through visual programming",
    author = "Lala, Divesh  and
      Elmers, Mikey  and
      Inoue, Koji  and
      Pang, Zi Haur  and
      Ochi, Keiko  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya",
    editor = "Torres, Maria Ines  and
      Matsuda, Yuki  and
      Callejas, Zoraida  and
      del Pozo, Arantza  and
      D'Haro, Luis Fernando",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Bilbao, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.iwsds-1.17/",
    pages = "176--182",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-248-0",
    abstract = "Implementation of spoken dialogue systems can be time-consuming, in particular for people who are not familiar with managing dialogue states and turn-taking in real-time. A GUI-based system where the user can quickly understand the dialogue flow allows rapid prototyping of experimental and real-world systems. In this demonstration we present ScriptBoard, a tool for creating dialogue scenarios which is independent of any specific robot platform. ScriptBoard has been designed with multi-party scenarios in mind and makes use of large language models to both generate dialogue and make decisions about the dialogue flow. This program promotes both flexibility and reproducibility in spoken dialogue research and provides everyone the opportunity to design and test their own dialogue scenarios."
}