Title
The TRAINS project: a case study in building a conversational planning agent
Abstract
The Trains project is an effort to build a conversationally proficient planning assistant. A key part of the project is the construction of the Trains system, which provides the research platform for a wide range of issues in natural language understanding, mixed-initiative planning systems, and representing and reasoning about time, actions and events. Four years have now passed since the beginning of the project. Each year a demonstration system has been produced that focused on a dialogue that illustrates particular aspects of the research. The commitment to building complete integrated systems is a significant overhead on the research, but it is considered essential to guarantee that the results constitute real progress in the field. This paper describes the goals of the project, and the experience with the effort so far.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1080/09528139508953799
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
7
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0952-813X
109
11.00
References 
Authors
15
11
Search Limit
100109
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James F. Allen11140239.83
Lenhart K. Schubert2834283.39
George Ferguson31228150.77
Peter Heeman420319.94
Chung Hee Hwang521326.77
Tsuneaki Kato627138.70
Marc Light710911.00
Nathaniel Martin811716.12
Bradford W. Miller921025.18
Massimo Poesio101869170.68
David R. Traum111373146.58