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Conversational Interfaces Community Group

Group closed 2023-12-07

The mission of the Conversational Interfaces Community Group is to enable web developers to collaborate and share conversational experiences for a variety of domains. Most dialogue systems serve interactive experiences in their own domain specific language, causing a fragmented zoo of proprietary formats. For example, Google Home or Alexa do not share a common intermediate representation, which makes writing wide-spread content inaccessible to the mass audience. We study existing specs and design standards to harness proven techniques into common agreement. See the the Community Group's charter.

conversational-interfaces w3c/dmpl

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final reports / licensing info

date name commitments
Dialogue Manager Programming Language (DMPL) Licensing commitments
DM Script Licensing commitments
DM Script 2020 Licensing commitments
Dialogue Manager Programming Language (DMPL) 2020 Licensing commitments

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Call for Participation in Conversational Interfaces Community Group

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The mission of the Conversational Interfaces Community Group is to enable web developers to collaborate and share conversational experiences for a variety of domains. Most dialogue systems serve interactive experiences in their own domain specific language, causing a fragmented zoo of proprietary formats. For example, Google Home or Alexa do not share a common intermediate representation, which makes writing wide-spread content inaccessible to the mass audience. We study existing specs and design standards to harness proven techniques into common agreement.


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2019-02-21 by Nishant Shukla. The following people supported its creation: Nishant Shukla, Nelson Solano, Mark Edmonds, Costi Dumitrescu, Vinay Dandekar, Feng Shi, Kelvin Green. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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