Using a Reactive Planner as the Basis for a Dialogue Agent  Reva
Freedman, University of Pittsburgh, USA  This paper describes
the Atlas Planning Engine, a reactive planner at the center of
the Atlas dialogue management system. The goal of Atlas is to
build conversation-based systems where turns in the conversation
may include graphical actions and or text. Since APE can be used
to generate a dialogue involving arbitrarily nested discourse
constructs, it is more powerful than dialogue planners based on
finite state machines. Although it is intended largely to model
dialogue containing hierarchical multiturn planes, APE can also
be used as a general purpose programming tool for implementing a
dialogue system.