Tools to build Bespoke Conversational User Interfaces: A development platform with integrated crowdsourcing.

构建定制对话用户界面的工具：具有集成众包功能的开发平台。

• 批准号: 830223
• 金额: $ 67.53万
• 依托单位: ACTION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Innovation Loans
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830223
• 关键词: Tools; build; Bespoke; Conversational; User

The result of this research and development project will be a set of new software development tools that enable businesses to create their own bespoke, artificially intelligent Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs).CUIs operate on channels such as Amazon Alexa or Facebook Messenger and allow users to perform a range of tasks using natural language via voice or text.The planned work in this project follows work from project 105036 which demonstrated that, currently, commercial strength CUIs can only be developed with deep expertise in CUI design, computational linguistics, and machine learning. Existing development tools are not sufficiently sophisticated and result in CUIs that are oversimplified and not strong enough for commercial use.The CUI development environment that is proposed addresses this core barrier to entry in the CUI market. It will support businesses through all development lifecycle stages of CUI design, and, where beneficial, seamlessly enable crowdsourced assistance directly within this lifecycle when required.The crowdsourcing element of the tool seamlessly tasks:(i) external people working remotely who can collectively carry out low skilled, repetitive microtasks, such as creating and labelling large amounts of training data;(ii) external experts who can work remotely to carry out specialist macrotasks in the CUI development lifecycle; such expertise is typically unavailable within organisations wishing to create CUIs.The new tool will be developed by action.ai. Work is grounded on prior research and understanding of how reusable, commercial-strength CUIs can be created for specific business verticals.

该研发项目的结果将是一套新的软件开发工具，使企业能够创建自己的定制，人工智能会话用户界面（CUI）.CUIs在Amazon Alexa或Facebook Messenger等渠道上运行，允许用户通过语音或文本使用自然语言执行一系列任务。该项目中的计划工作遵循项目105036的工作，这表明，目前，只有在CUI设计、计算语言学和机器学习方面拥有深厚的专业知识，才能开发出具有商业实力的CUI。现有的开发工具不够成熟，导致GUI过于简单，不足以用于商业用途。建议的CUI开发环境解决了进入CUI市场的这一核心障碍。它将在CUI设计的所有开发生命周期阶段为企业提供支持，并在必要时直接在此生命周期内无缝启用众包协助。该工具的众包元素无缝分配以下任务：（i）可以远程工作的外部人员，他们可以共同执行低技能、重复性的微任务，例如创建和标记大量培训数据;（ii）可以远程工作的外部专家，他们可以在CUI开发生命周期中执行专业宏任务;（iii）可以远程工作的外部专家，他们可以在CUI开发生命周期中执行专业宏任务;（iv）可以远程工作的外部专家，他们可以在CUI开发生命周期中执行专业宏任务。在希望创建CUI的组织中，通常无法获得此类专业知识。新工具将由action.ai开发。工作是基于先前的研究和理解如何可重用的，商业实力的CUI可以创建特定的业务垂直。