A System Architecture for Spoken Utterance Production in Collaborative Dialogue

This paper presents a system architecture forproducing spoken utterances while collaboratingwith the human dialogue partner in carryingon a spoken dialogue. The system incrementallyproduces utterances while managingthe responses and interruptions from the humandialogue partner that occur in the middleof the system's utterances. The collaborativeprinciples that the system must use in orderto collaborate on a spoken dialogue with thehuman partner are described. These...