Bootstrapping a User-Centered Task-Oriented Dialogue System. (arXiv:2207.05223v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

We present TacoBot, a task-oriented dialogue system built for the inaugural
Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, which assists users in completing multi-step
cooking and home improvement tasks. TacoBot is designed with a user-centered
principle and aspires to deliver a collaborative and accessible dialogue
experience. Towards that end, it is equipped with accurate language
understanding, flexible dialogue management, and engaging response generation.
Furthermore, TacoBot is backed by a strong search engine and an automated
end-to-end test suite. In bootstrapping the development of …

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