The goal of the AD Tech Forum is the development of a coherent architecture and process for the design, development, and implementation of interactive voice and video dialogs whose interactive complexity requires sophistication unachievable by conventional finite state machine design.

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Advanced Dialogs Technical Forum Background and History

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The AD Tech Forum was founded in October, 2006 under the title “Advanced Dialogs Working Group” of the VoiceXML Forum’s “Tools Group”. Its founding was stimulated by a growing awareness of incompatibility among IVR application servers, resulting in the attempt to specify a dialog ‘metalanguage’ which would cross vendor and server architecture boundaries to facilitate application transportability. A sharpening of the focus on dialog metalanguage led to the exploration of standard methods for the specification of non-FSM dialogs.

 

The first AD Workshop was held on Feb 22, 2007 in San Francisco during the AVIOS/SpeechTEK conference. Discussion included:

• How can the definition of ‘states’ be expanded?

• Goal Orientation the effective representation and management of goals

• Search, Rules and Stochastic Reasoning

 

The second AD Workshop was held on Aug 23, 2007 in New York during the SpeechTEK conference. Discussion included:

 

• Plan-based reasoning

• Stochastic reasoning

• Rule and frame-based

• Case Based reasoning

• Metalanguage overview

• Integrating AD into Metalanguage

 

 

The third AD Workshop was held on Mar 13, 2008 in San Diego during the AVIOS/TMAA Voice Search Conference. Discussion included:

 

• Metalanguage

• Architectures

• Case Based reasoning

• The France Telecom AD solution

• An architectural framework for future AD discussion

• Which technical approach do we use for the inference engine: frame-based, stochastic, case-based, rule-based, plan-based

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