Robust Dialogue Understanding in HERALD

We tackle the problem of robust dialogue process- ing from the perspective of language engineering. We propose an agent -oriented architecture that al- lows us a flexible way of composing robust proc- essors. Our approach is based on Shoham's Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) paradigm. We will show how the AOP agent model can be enriched with special features and components that allow us to deal with classical problems of dialogue under- standing.