An adaptable task-oriented dialog system for stand-alone embedded devices

Long Duong, Vu Cong Duy Hoang, Tuyen Quang Pham, Yu-Heng Hong, Vladislavs Dovgalecs, Guy Bashkansky, Jason Black, Andrew Bleeker, Serge Le Huitouze, Mark Johnson

Abstract
This paper describes a spoken-language end-to-end task-oriented dialogue system for small embedded devices such as home appliances. While the current system implements a smart alarm clock with advanced calendar scheduling functionality, the system is designed to make it easy to port to other application domains (e.g., the dialogue component factors out domain-specific execution from domain-general actions such as requesting and updating slot values). The system does not require internet connectivity because all components, including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue management, execution and text-to-speech, run locally on the embedded device (our demo uses a Raspberry Pi). This simplifies deployment, minimizes server costs and most importantly, eliminates user privacy risks. The demo video in alarm domain is here youtu.be/N3IBMGocvHU
Anthology ID:
P19-3009
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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July
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Marta R. Costa-jussà, Enrique Alfonseca
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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49–57
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-3009
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-3009
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Long Duong, Vu Cong Duy Hoang, Tuyen Quang Pham, Yu-Heng Hong, Vladislavs Dovgalecs, Guy Bashkansky, Jason Black, Andrew Bleeker, Serge Le Huitouze, and Mark Johnson. 2019. An adaptable task-oriented dialog system for stand-alone embedded devices. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 49–57, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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An adaptable task-oriented dialog system for stand-alone embedded devices (Duong et al., ACL 2019)
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