Challenges in Building Highly-Interactive Dialog Systems

Research systems are providing a vision of what is possible. However much work remains before such abilities are robust, widely useful, and generally available. This article identifies 10 key challenges, relating to modeling, systems architecture, and development methods. Of pressing importance for dialogue systems, these challenges are also relevant for intelligent and interactive systems more generally. Given Siri's broad deployment and popular example in science fiction movies. However, tellingly, salience, one might imagine that it solved the problems such systems are portrayed as idiot savants: knowledgeable, of interacting in dialogue: we often meet people logical, and well-spoken, but unable to who are unaware how cleverly Siri and her sisters interact smoothly with humans. We find it provocative avoid dialogue.