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In this paper, we present an intelligent personal assistant, called Uhura, that handles requests involving multiple, interrelated goals and activities by efficiently producing a coherent plan. Uhura achieves this by integrating a collaborative dialog manager, a conflict-directed planner with spatial and temporal reasoning capabilities, and a large-scale knowledge graph. We also present a user survey that assesses the usefulness of the plans produced by Uhura in urban travel planning.
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Yu, P., Shen, J., Yeh, P.Z., Williams, B. (2016). Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_47
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