I went to see my supervisor on Friday, and we talked some about dialogue systems, which he does a lot of research on. He told me this interesting thing: when you sum up the mistakes a dialogue system makes, you end up with a list which more or less describes the communication problems that children with autism display. When you think about it, is quite logical, but I hadn’t thought about it before.
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Can you explain what a dialogue system is? This is a very interesting idea and I’d love to know more.
I don’t know very much about dialogue systems yet, but basically it’s a computer programmed to converse with humans, often for a specific purpose, e.g. booking airlane tickets. Read more at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_system