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13:57:00 <ddahl> Meeting: Voice Interaction
13:57:10 <ddahl> Chair: debbie
13:57:15 <ddahl> scribe: ddahl
13:59:24 <ddahl> topic: Special Issue of JMUI
14:04:11 <ddahl> rrsagent, format minutes
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14:07:30 <ddahl> debbie: should be "Journal on Multimodal Interfaces"
14:08:42 <ddahl> debbie: is there a way to see submissions?
14:09:12 <ddahl> dirk: we should receive a notification for each submission
14:09:39 <ddahl> debbie: we can send around the web page
14:10:04 <ddahl> dirk: there is no conflict with older instructions
14:10:55 <ddahl> debbie: I can post it on some Linux Foundation Slack channels
14:11:21 <ddahl> ...A2A just joined the Agentic AI Foundation, so they should be interested
14:11:50 <ddahl> topic: grounding
14:12:47 <ddahl> dirk: didn't have time but Kristiina asked if there were any standards on grounding
14:13:11 <ddahl> dirk: open knowledge format, an effort from Google
14:14:26 <ddahl> https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog
14:15:10 <ddahl> (from README) an AI-powered data catalog and metadata management platform. It provides a dynamic knowledge graph of all your data, structured and unstructured, to provide semantics and business context to AI agents
14:16:08 <ddahl> debbie: this sounds like "context engineering"
14:17:40 <ddahl> dirk: used in Open Wiki, they analyze source code and provides documentation, etc. as markdown files
14:17:50 <ddahl> ...Langchain
14:18:17 <ddahl> debbie: that sounds like context engineering
14:19:08 <ddahl> dirk: can try to give an overview of Open Knowledge Format for next time
14:19:52 <ddahl> debbie: so many people are interested in this
14:20:57 <ddahl> ...also ties into grounding
14:21:35 <ddahl> dirk: could this format help with context for conversational agents, so you don't have to set up a database
14:22:13 <ddahl> debbie: if this worked, does it mean that RAG is losing its value?
14:22:34 <ddahl> dirk: or supplement it
14:24:11 <ddahl> debbie: there are a lot of existing databases, so RAG could still be used, but this could help with areas where there aren't any existing databases
14:26:25 <ddahl> debbie: knowledge grounding sounds like the semantic web
14:27:12 <ddahl> debbie: maybe we still need to think about what we would work on
14:27:54 <ddahl> rrsagent, format minutes
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14:28:52 <ddahl> dirk: what would be tasks? Publicize web page, prepare a talk on Open Knowledge Format
14:29:12 <ddahl> ...I can also send to the Sigdial mailing list
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14:30:30 <ddahl> dirk: not sure if OKF is helpful for grounding
14:33:51 <ddahl> regrets: Gerard
14:33:56 <ddahl> present: debbie, dirk
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