Here we go. Welcome everybody. Um, I'm Abigail Claflin. You can call me Abbie.'S see. PowerPoint, that's not it. There we go. So this is our kick off meeting. Um and I guess we should all get acquainted. Let's shall we all introduce ourselves?

Hi I'm Chiara, I'm the um Marketing Expert. Um, would you like me to talk about my aims at the moment, or would you like me to just say my name and then we can talk about business later?

I think we'll get around to that, yeah. So this is just introductions yeah.

We'll get round to that later. My name is Chiara and I'm the Marketing Expert.

Okay. I forgot to s say I'm the Project Manager but I figured you all knew that already,

um so.

I'm Stephanie and I am the User Interface Designer.

I'm Krista and I'm the Industrial Designer.

Okay. Um so f here's our agenda for today. Um we're gonna do some tool training, project plan and discuss then close. Um so. So our aim is to produce a remote control that is original, trendy and user friendly. And to do this, we have to um there's certain things we have to consider about functional aspects and conceptual design of the thing. So. We'll get to that. Oh there it is. Right. Functional design, conceptual design and detailed design. So throughout our next couple of meetings we'll we'll be covering these things. Um so we're gonna try out our white board. If we'll all draw our favourite animal, to sum up the characteristics of that animal. Okay.

So you want us to draw it and then talk about it? Or just draw it?

I think both..

Yeah. Both. Yeah.

Okay. Why don't we do both. Right.

Who starts? We ought to decide who starts and all that. No?

Any volunteers?

Uh-huh.

Does anyone know what they wanna draw?.

Mm, I gotta think about it for a second like. Uh Does it have to be functional, trendy and user friendly?.

I don't think so.

Um. Okay, I'll draw. I'll draw one.

Make sure my things here. Uh-oh. Right. Okay, my favourite animal is see. Oops.

A dolphin.

Yeah, it's.

'S like playing Pictionary.

Yeah, I guess it has a fin on top too, yeah. It's my dolphin.

So what characteristics do you like about your animal?.

I like its tail.

Um, no, I think dolphins are really uh I dunno, they're smart and they they're cute and they like swimming and that's cool, like.

They're graceful.

they're graceful yeah, and they're so.

Sleek.

Yeah they're sleek

and they look intelligent and I don't know, they're I guess it's the whole like binocular vision thing.

I don't know how intelligent that one looks.

Yeah he he doesn't look that smart. He's a I dunno um they're I think it's cool the the um the interaction that or the th things that the reasons people seem to like you know you get ex you know people are sitting on the beach and p they're like oh look there's dolphins and it's kinda like but they're you know they jump around in the water and they're happy and they're mammals, but they swim..

Yes. Does anybody else wanna draw their animal?

Suppose I can draw an animal, yeah.

Uh-oh there goes the ten.

Yeah.

It's a cat..

I don't know. They sleep all day, they're easy to draw.

Do you wanna anything?

Uh yeah.

I dunno if the the.

I think the pen is running out of.

Well I had the cat as well, but uh I've got a spare one.

ah.

So I'll use the spare one. Um but it's harder to draw um.

And the pen's dying.

Um.

A horse.

Horse.

Uh. Um I don't really know how the legs go,

That's very good.

but anyway I will do that. Um, and the main reason is they're pretty. I think they're very pretty and they go well with the environment, and I like the way they run and I used to do horse riding and they're just very sort of sturdy and nice animals. And I like the way um they feel, sort of under under the hand, I think that's pretty much it. Um.

Yeah. This cord's Uh. Right. Actually I haven't thought of anything yet. Uh It's a pig.

So I'm thinking we should design a remote control that's water resistant, strong and furry. What do you think, yeah? This is.

And furry.

yeah, well like a cat, you know, soft yeah.

Textile tactile, tactile remote control.

Although uh I'll just put there. Right.

You're dragging a you have a tail.

Oh my gosh, this is disastrous. Sorry about that. Okay. So moving on. Our selling price goal is twenty five Euro and profit aim is fifty million Euro. So I'm guessing that we're not actually in Scotland, we're in some European country. Um, and we will hope to sell this internationally.

Sorry can you just say that what's the what are our price goals again?

Um selling price is twenty five Euro. Profit aim fifty million Euro.

Okay.

How many should we sell then? Um, a lot,

Anyone a mathematician?.

two two two million, two mi no, more f four million.

Two million.

Four million. And it.

well it's the profit so if a profit for each is twelve fifty, that'll do four million.

Oh, yeah.

It is a lot. Uh.

So f that's a fifty percent um uh. Um, I don't know what these mean because I didn't actually make the slide-show. Experience with remote control. So I guess we have to reflect on our experiences with remote controls to decide what um we would like to see in a convenient, practical, nice remote control. Um so do we have any initial ideas for uh how this remote control should be designed or formatted or the the buttons it should have.

Um, I think one thing is that it should be easy to find

I was thinking that too.

bec yeah bec

Yeah.

I think we should design something that has like a so you can like somehow like you I mean you always know where your T_V_ is, so just have a call button,

I've always wanted that,

Yeah.

so like you can push a button on your T_V_.

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.

I mean you have it for the portable phone, so why not yeah.

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so you should have a call button on your television to be able to find your remote control.

Yeah. And even I think a little light. Um or even a maybe a vib a vibrating thing. I dunno but someth because it's usually under the sofa.

Yeah. Yeah.

In which case you're going to be l but if it has a sort of signal which isn't any sound.

Yeah.

I don't know if it's expensive maybe to.

I don't yeah I mean it but like I mean.

Maybe call is enough. But yeah.

just I mean like your phone even just has so like it can vibrate, it can light up and make noise and I dunno.

Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah.

What if it had something like um just like a magnet on the back of it and you could I mean j just to have some place to put it besides like a base. You know like a portable phone has a base,

Yeah. Yeah, or if it had a yeah.

like just to have a home for it.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Yeah,

'Cause people just stick it on top of their T_V_, but the point of having a remote is not to have to walk over to the T_V_, so.

I mean.

Well that's why it's always in the couch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, in in the couch.

I dunno, it seems like though that that would be hard,'cause you not you're not gonna be lazy anyway and.

Yeah. Maybe we should design couches that have the remote control in the side arm..

Yeah so we the project is now couches and remote controls.

But even just a thing to attach it to the w you know if you had a thing, a pretty object attached to the wall. But that would really make it more expensive.

Yeah.

But it's only a plastic thing, r really, the thing on the wall.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Do you think it needs to be bigger to not lose, or does that not factor in?

And the other thing is.

Bigger.

Not well it needs to be sort of.

Like Hand hand held size, yeah.

Hand-sized.

Yeah. I don't think you need a.

Not not huge, but.

But definitely not well I don't know.

It can't be that hard to put some kind of a noise on it.

No, it can't be, uh-uh.

No it really wouldn't be.

Huh.

Or like or like a light thing. You know. I dunno.

Like spaceship.

. Yeah. Or make it mobile so it runs around and comes come find you yeah.

That would be really I'm sure we could do that for twenty five Euros a pop.

Little homing device. Um.

Yeah. Uh.

Okay. So what do we think this remote control should Five minutes.

Oh dear.

Till the meeting oh right. This is what we have left. Um, oh we just.

I also think though that it shouldn't have too many buttons,

Yeah, I agree.

'cause I hate that when they have too many buttons and.

Yeah.

B_ button and the F_ button, they don't do anything.

Yeah, yeah yeah.

I mean I know it has to have enough functions but like, I don't know you, just have like eight thousand buttons and you're like, no, you never use half of them. So.

You what if um may be a little fancy but what if it had like a little screen, so it has less buttons but it still has all the functions. Like the way a mobile phone does.

That would be cool.

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean it just seems like.

So you could like um like if you have I dunno if you have satellite if you have a hundred channels, you can the way you do it on your radio is that you uh.

yeah.

what do you call it.

Select. Uh.

s y yeah but you can programme, so you can programme like your favourite channels, so like if you had a s

But, would you have the screen on the thing, or would you have it on the telly transmitting the screen.

That's something we could decide. Mm.

Because.

I guess they would go together somehow? I dunno.

Because, I don't know if it's I think it's e expensive, if you have if you use the telly screen,'cause the telly's already a screen, then you can pro sort of have a programming function, really easy sort of arrow up and down, on the remote,

Yeah. Yeah.

and then use the telly as a screen.

Right.

But um.

I'm thinking kind of.

But yeah for sure. Something like not it's not on the button but it's telling you what to do,

Yeah.

is that what you mean?

Yeah.

Right. Mm.

Or like you h you see those you know people I'm thinking of like celebrity cribs kind of things when like they have all those these things that at their house you know their their entire house is so electronic, and they have like this one master control that and it's like a hand held like turns on everything sort of control and it has like a screen and like so I think it should be possible to have some kind of a screen, I don't know if it must be it would probably.

Yeah.

must be ex too expensive though t like I dunno.

Mm.

But like mobile phones have screens and they're cheap.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah that's true.

Yeah. I mean, we have to remember our budget is twelve point twelve fifty for to actually make the device.

Yeah.

Mm.

Um but it's something to think about, yeah.

Well, I guess we have to get to that later, yeah.

I mean we'll have to see how much that would be.

Or some it i we can find out probably on the internet how much it's.

Yeah.

Um. Yeah, and the other thing you said that thing about robust and water um.

What was the word?

Furry.

Water resistant.

Oh I was just.

No but it's I thought, ah, spot on.

Good feel, tact tactile, good tactile feel,

Yeah.

maybe something didn doesn't make your hands sweat lot.

Yeah. Mm, mm.

That's quite annoying.

Maybe um just like a simple thing to have a clip on it, like so you can clip it to your.

Yeah.

like that's another.

Yeah, clip. Ooh. Um.

Um. We should probably start wrapping up, um we've got some initial ideas that we can all look into. Um, and come up with some new ones for the next meeting, which will be in another thirty minutes. Um. So. Yeah. The Industrial Designer, what does that stand for, I_D_,

Yeah I think so.

yeah um is going to be looking more into the working design. So I guess you'd be looking at lots of the things we discussed about screen and um that sort of thing. The something, what is the U_I_?

User.

Yeah, what does it stand for again?

That's me. Uh, User Interface design.

User Interface Designer. So that's gonna be more technical. I guess that maybe the working design has also to do with like the physical feat like just the way it looks and the way it w

So technical function.

The working design is the structure.

Yeah, yeah.

What is technical functions exactl I I don't really know what.

Um, I guess you'd have to find out.

Um.

It says on that email but it.

It was in the email.

It does but it I just don't really.

I wrote down what mine were.

It said um.

Yeah.

It said.

What effect should the thing ha should it have, okay. Alright.

Yeah

And working design.

like.

Okay.

Be a medium between you and the telly I think,

Yeah, yeah. Alright.

Mm.

that's uh.

And how it works, okay. Right. I'm I'm on task.

And the M_E_, what does that stand for? M

Marketing.

Marketing, right. Um.

Marketing. Oh it's written here, but um.

So we'll be working on the user requirements, um Yeah.

Okay.

So I guess that wraps it up. I'll see you all in thirty minutes. I just did.

Question: Which questions brought up during the meeting were left unanswered?

Response:
The meeting brought up several questions that remained unanswered:
- The participants discussed several design features for the remote control, such as a call button, light or vibrating signal, but did not come to a consensus on which ones to include.
- The participants mentioned the idea of having a screen on the remote control to display function options but did not decide whether the screen should be on the remote or on the television.
- The participants discussed the idea of making the remote control water-resistant, strong, and furry, but did not provide specific details or decide on which material to use.

Question: Would the project team benefit from consulting with an accessibility expert to discuss screen design options for the remote control?

Response: The project team did not discuss consulting with an accessibility expert to discuss screen design options for the remote control.

Question: Would the project team benefit from creating a prototype of the remote control to test its usability before finalizing the design?

Response: The project team did not discuss about the topic of creating a prototype of the remote control to test its usability before finalizing the design.

Question: What was the advantage of using a transparent material for the remote control's casing?

Response: The provided meeting transcript does not contain any information about the advantage of using a transparent material for the remote control's casing, so I cannot answer this question.

Question: What choice did the team make regarding the remote's power source?

Response: The provided meeting transcript does not contain any information about the team's choice regarding the remote's power source, so I cannot answer this question.

Question: Can you provide a summary of the ideas proposed for the remote control's shape and size?

Response: The meeting transcript does not contain any information about the ideas proposed for the remote control's shape and size. Therefore, I cannot answer this question.

Question: What were the benefits of choosing a transparent material for the remote control's casing?

Response: The provided meeting transcript does not contain any information about the benefits of choosing a transparent material for the remote control's casing. Therefore, I cannot answer this question.

Question: Can you provide a concise overview of the key points discussed in the meeting?

Response:
The participants focused on generating ideas and discussing key features for the remote control's design, including:
* Incorporating a call button, light or vibrating signal to help locate the remote control easily.
* Integrating a screen to display function options, though the placement of the screen (on the remote or television) was not decided.
* Exploring the use of water-resistant, strong, and furry materials, without specifying the material choice.

Question: In what way is a transparent casing for the remote control's casing advantageous?

Response: The meeting transcript does not contain any information regarding the advantageous aspects of a transparent casing for the remote control. Therefore, I am unable to answer this question.

Question: What decisions were finalized during the meeting regarding the remote control's design and features?

Response: The meeting primarily focused on brainstorming ideas and discussing potential features for the remote control's design. No final decisions were made regarding the remote control's design or specific features.


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Wow.

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Could I hit hit F - seven to do that? on the Robert?

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You are in control. Already?

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Do I wanna go back to the first one?

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OK.

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I can read! I'm kidding.

you know, because.

Mm - hmm.

But if you really want to find out what it's about you have to click on the little light bulb.

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Why are you doing this in this mode and not in the presentation mode?

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and then if I do that it'll mess everything up.

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Can you maximize the window so all that stuff on the side isn't doesn't appear?

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Yeah.

Uh I'll also get rid of this " Click to add notes ". OK.

Perfect.

So then the features we decided or we decided we were talked about, right? Uh the the prosody, the discourse, verb choice. You know. We had a list of things like " to go " and " to visit " and what not. The " landmark - iness " of uh I knew you'd like that.

Nice coinage.

Thank you. uh, of a of a building. Whether the and this i we actually have a separate feature but I decided to put it on the same line for space. " Nice walls " which we can look up because I mean if you're gonna get real close to a building in the Tango mode, right, there's gotta be a reason for it. And it's either because you're in route to something else or you wanna look at the walls. The context, which in this case we've limited to " business person ", " tourist ", or " unknown ", the time of day, and " open to suggestions ", isn't actually a feature. It's " We are open to suggestions. "

Right. can I just ask the nice walls part of it is that uh, in this particular domain you said be i it could be on two different lines but are you saying that in this particular domain it happens the that landmark - iness cor is correlated with

Oh.

No. We have a separate

They're separate things.

feature.

their being nice w

Yeah.

OK.

I either could put " nice walls " on its own line or " open to suggestions " off the slide.

Like you could have a p

And and By " nice " you mean.

You Like you could have a post office with uh you know, nice murals or something.

Right.

OK.

Or one time I was at this.

So " nice walls " is a stand in for like architecturally it, uh significant

But see the thing is, if it's.

Architecturally appealing from the outside.

or something like that. OK.

Yeah but if it's architecturally significant you might be able to see it from Like you m might be able to " Vista " it,

Mm - hmm.

right? And be able to.

Appreciate it.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah, versus, like, I was at this place in Europe where they had little carvings of, like, dead people on the walls or something.

Mm - hmm.

I don't remember w

Uh - huh.

It was a long time ago.

There's a lot of those.

But if you looked at it real close, you could see the the in intricacy of the of the walls.

OK. So that count as counts as a nice wall.

Mm - hmm.

Right.

The OK. Right.

The.

Something you want to inspect at close range because it's interesting.

Exactly.

OK.

Hmm.

Robert?

Well there there is a term that's often used. That's " saliency ", or the " salience " of an object. And I was just wondering whether that's the same as what you describe as " landmark - iness ". But it's really not. I mean an object can be very salient

Hmm.

but not a landmark at all.

Not a landmark at all. There's landmark for um, touristic reasons and landmark for I don't know navigational reasons or something.

Yep.

Right.

Yeah, we meant, uh, touristic reasons.

Yeah.

OK.

Hmm.

Right.

OK. but you can imagine maybe wanting the oth both kinds of things there for different um, goals.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Right.

Right?

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Or it can be als

direct navigational.

They're not mutually exclusive?

Yeah.

Right.

OK.

Right. Definitely.

OK, So our initial idea was not very satisfying, because uh our initial idea was basically all the features pointing to the output node. Uh.

So, a big flat structure.

Right.

Right?

Yep.

And uh, so we Reasons being, you know, it'd be a pain to set up all the probabilities for that. If we moved onto the next step and did learning of some sort, uh according Bhaskara we'd be handicapped. I don't know belief - nets very well.

Well usually, I mean, you know, N If you have N features, then it's two to the N or exponential in N.

And they wouldn't look pretty. So.

Yeah, they'd all be like pointing to the one node.

Mm - hmm.

Uh. So then our next idea was to add a middle layer, right? So the thinking behind that was we have the features that we've drawn from the communication of some Like, the someone s The person at the screen is trying to communicate some abstract idea, like " I'm " the the abstract idea being " I am a tourist I want to go to this place. " Right? So we're gonna set up features along the lines of where they want to go and what they've said previously and whatnot. And then we have the means that they should use. Right? but the middle thing, we were thinking along the lines of maybe trying to figure out, like, the concept of whether they're a tourist or whether they're running an errand or something like that along those lines. Or Yes, we could things we couldn't extract the from the data, the hidden variables. Yes, good. So then the hidden variables hair variables we came up with were whether someone was on a tour, running an errand, or whether they were in a hurry, because we were thinking uh, if they were in a hurry there'd be less likely to like or th

Want to do Vista,

Right.

right? Because if you want to view things you wouldn't be in a hurry.

Or they might be more likely to be using the place that they want to go to as a like a navigational point to go to another place.

Mm - hmm.

Whether the destination was their final destination, whether the destination was closed. Those are all And then " Let's look at the belief - net "  OK. So that means that I should switch to the other program. Um right now it's still kind of in a toy version of it, because we didn't know the probabilities of or Well I'll talk about it when I get the picture up.

No one knows it.

OK. So this right what we Let's see. What happens if I maximize this? There we go. But uh So. The mode basically has three different outputs. The probability whether the probability of a Vista, Tango, or Enter. Um The " context ", we simplified. Basically it's just the businessman, the tourist, unknown. " Verb used " is actually personally amusing mainly because it's it's just whether the verb is a Tango verb, an Enter verb, or a Vista verb.

Yeah, that one needs a lot of.

And are those mutually exclusive sets?

No.

Not at all. That's that that needs a lot of work.

Right.

But uh that would've made the probably significantly be more complicated to enter,

Got it. Uh - huh.

so we decided that for the purposes of this it'd be simpler to just have three verbs.

Yeah. Simple.

Yeah.

Stab at it. Yep.

Right. Um Why don't you mention things about this, Bhaskara, that I am not that are not coming to my mind right now.

OK, so Yeah, so note the four nodes down there, the sort of, the things that are not directly extracted. Actually, the five things. The " closed " is also not directly extracted I guess, from the uh.

Well i it's.

Hmm.

From the utterance?

it's so it sort of is

Actually, no, wait.

because it's because have the the time of day

It is. OK, " closed " sort of is.

and the close it just had the er and what time it closed.

Right, so f Right, but the other ones, the final destination, the whether they're doing business, whether they're in a hurry, and whether they're tourists, that kind of thing is all uh sort of you know probabilistically depends on the other things.

Inferred from the other ones?

Yeah.

OK.

And the mode, you know, depends on all those things only.

Yeah the the actual parse is somewhere up around in here.

Yeah. So we haven't uh, managed Like we don't have nodes for " discourse " and " parse ", although like in some sense they are parts of this belief - net.

Mm - hmm.

But uh The idea is that we just extract those features from them, so we don't actually have a node for the entire parse,

Mm - hmm.

Right.

because we'd never do inference on it anyway, so.

So some of the the top row of things What's what's " Disc admission fee "?

whether they discuss the admission fees. So we looked at the data and in a lot of data people were saying things like " Can I get to this place? "

Oh.

" What is the admission fee? ". So that's like a huge uh clue that they're trying to Enter the place rather than uh to Tango or Vista,

Uh - huh.

Right.

OK.

so.

I see.

There were there'd be other things besides just the admission fee, but you know, we didn't have.

Mm - hmm.

That was like our example.

Mm - hmm.

That was the initial one that we found.

OK. So there are certain cues that are very strong either lexical or topic - based um, concept cues

From the discourse that Yeah.

for one of those. And then in that second row or whatever that row of Time of Day through that So all of those Some of them come from the utterance and some of them are sort of either world knowledge or situational things.

Right.

Right? So that you have no distinction between those and OK.

One, uh Uh. Um, anything else you want to say Bhaskara?

Um.

" Unmark @ @ Time of Day "

Yeah, I m I mean.

Yeah. They're they're are a couple of more things.

One thing uh.

I mean Uh. I would actually suggest we go through this one more time so we we all uh, agree on what what the meaning of these things is at the moment and maybe what changes we.

Yeah, th OK. so one thing I I'm you know unsure about, is how we have the discus uh the " admission fee " thing set up. So one thing that we were thinking was by doing the layers like this, Uh we kept um things from directly affecting the mode beyond the concept, but you could see perhaps discus the " admission fee " going directly to the mode pointing at " Enter ",

Mm - hmm.

right? Versus pointing to just at " tourist ",

Mm - hmm.

OK?

Mm - hmm.

But we just decided to keep all the things we extracted to point at the middle and then down.

Mm - hmm. Why is the landmark OK. The landmark is facing to the tourists. That's because we're talking about landmarks as touristic landmarks not as possible um

Right.

Yeah.

Navigational landmarks,

Navigational cue.

navigational landmarks

yeah.

so Mm - hmm. Then.

Yeah, that would be whatever building they referred to.

Prosody.

Right. So let's see. The variables.

Mm - hmm.

Disc - " admission fee " is a binary thing, " time of day " is like morning, afternoon, night. Is that the deal? Yeah.

That's how we have it currently set up,

Yep.

but it could be, you know, based upon hour

Yeah. Yeah.

Whatever granularity.

or dis we could discrete it des descret - ize it.

Yeah.

Uh - huh.

Yeah.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah. Normally context will include a huge amount of information, but um, we are just using the particular part of the context which consists of the switch that they flick to indicate whether they're a tourist or not, I guess.

Yep.

OK. So that's given in their input.

Right.

So Right,

Right?

so it's not really all of context. Similarly prosody is not all of prosody but simply for our purposes whether or not they appear tense or relaxed.

Mm - hmm. that's very nice, huh?

OK.

The the So the context is a switch between tourist or non - tourist?

and

Or also unknown?

Or un unknown,

OK.

yeah.

Yeah. Unknown, right?

So final dest So it seems like that would really help you for doing business versus tourist,

Which is th Which one?

but OK. so the the context being um, e I don't know if that question's sort of in general, " are you " I mean the ar ar are do they allow business people to be doing non - business things at the moment?

Yeah, it does.

OK. So then you just have some probabilities over.

Everything is probablistic, and There's always.

OK. over which which of those it is.

Yeah. Um, right. So then landmark is Oh, sorry. " Verb used " is like, right now we only have three values, but in general they would be a probability distribution over all verbs.

Mm - hmm.

Rather, let me rephrase that. It it can take values in the set of all verbs, that they could possibly use.

Mm - hmm.

Um " nice walls " is binary, " closed " is binary " final destination ", again Yeah, all those are binary I guess. And " mode " is one of three things.

So, the the middle layer is also binary? No.

Yeah, anything with a question mark after it in that picture is a binary node.

Uh. It Yeah. But all those things without question marks are also binary. Right?

Which things?

Nice walls?

Wi

Mm - hmm.

Oh. " Nice walls " is uh something that we extract from our world knowledge.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah, a Oh yeah. Sorry. It is binary.

It is binary but it doesn't have question mark because it's extracted.

That's true. Yeah. OK, I see your point.

Yeah. OK.

Yeah.

I I gotcha.

Uh - huh.

Yeah, similarly " closed ", I guess.

So we can either be in a hurry or not, but we cannot be in a medium hurry at the moment?

Well, we To do that we would add another uh value for that.

Mm - hmm. OK.

And that would require s updating the probability distribution for " mode " as well.

Mm - hmm.

Because it would now have to like uh take that possibility into account.

Mm - hmm. Take a conti

Mm - hmm.

So um, of course this will happen when we think more about the kinds of verbs that are used in each cases

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

but you can imagine that it's verb plus various other things that are also not in the bottom layer that would that would help you Like it's a conjunction of, I don't know, you know, the verb used and some other stuff that that would determine.

Right. Other syntactic information you mean?

Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah.

Um.

well the the sort of the landmark is is sort of the object right? the argument in a sense?

Usually. I I don't know if that's always the case I I guess haven't looked at the data as much as you guys have. So. Um.

that's always warping on something some entity,

Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.

and um Uh maybe at this stage we will we do want to uh sort of get uh modifiers in there

Hmm. Yeah.

because they may also tell us whether the person is in a hurry or not

I want to get to the church quickly,

Yeah.

Mm - hmm.

and uh.

Yeah, right.

That would be a cue.

what's the fastest way

Yeah, correct.

Mm - hmm. Um. OK.

Right. Excellent. Do we have anything else to say about this?

We can do a little demo.

Oh the Yeah, we could. But the demo doesn't work very well.

No, then it wouldn't be a demo I was just gonna s

I mean We can do a demo in the sense that we can um, just ob observe the fact that this will, in fact do inference.

Observe nodes.

So we can, you know, set some of the uh nodes and then try to find the probability of other nodes.

Yeah. Go ahead.

OK. Dat - dat - dah. What should I observe?

Just se set a few of them. You don't have to do the whole thing that we did last time. Just like uh, maybe the fact that they use a certain verb.

OK.

Actually forget the verb.

OK.

just uh I don't know, say they discussed the admission fee.

OK.

and uh the place has nice walls

I love nice walls, OK? I'm a big fan.

and it's night.

it's starting to grow on me

And the time of day is night?

Yeah, no wait. That that doesn't uh it's not really consistent. They don't discuss the admission fee. Make that false.

Alright.

And it's night.

Oh, they OK. Oh whoops. I forgot to uh.

That didn't work.

Ach!

I'd like to do that again.

One thing that bugs me about JavaBayes is you have to click that and do this.

Yeah. That seems kind of redundant but.

OK.

That all you want?

Yes.

OK. So let's see. I want to query,

" Go " and, right, " query ".

right? the mode. OK, and then on here So let's see.

So that is the probability that they're Entering, Vista - ing or Tango - ing.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah.

And uh.

So slightly biased toward " Tango " ing

Yeah.

If it's night time, they have not discussed admission fee, and the n walls are nice.

OK.

So, yeah. I guess that sort of makes sense. The reason I say the demo doesn't work very well is yesterday we uh observed everything in favor of taking a tour, and it came up as " Tango ", right? Over and over again. We couldn't we couldn't figure out how to turn it off of " Tango ".

So. Uh - huh.

It loves the Tango.

Huh! Um.

Well, that's obviously just to do with our probabilities.

Yeah, yeah.

Like, we totally hand - tuned the probabilities,

Yeah.

right. We were like " hmm, well if the person does this and this and this, let's say forty percent for this,

OK.

fifty per " Like, you know. So obviously that's gonna happen.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah but it it

Maybe the bias toward " Tango " ing was yours, then?

Yeah,

Yeah.

that's that's at.

It's So we have to like fit the probabilities.

Spent my youth practicing the tango de la muerte.

So, the real case?

However you know, it The purpose was not really, at this stage, to come up with meaningful probabilities but to get thinking about that hidden middle layer. And so th

Mm - hmm.

And.

We would actually I guess once we look at the data more we'll get more hidden nodes,

Mm - hmm.

Yeah.

but I'd like to see more. Not because it would expedite the probabilities, cuz it wouldn't. It would actually slow that down tremendously.

Um. Well, yeah, I guess.

But.

Not that much though. Only a little early.

No, I think we should have uh exponentially more middle nodes than features we've extracted. I'm ju I'm just jo

OK.

So. Are " doing business " versus " tourist " They refer to your current task. Like like current thing you want to do at this moment.

Um. Yeah, well That's that's an interesting point. Whether you're It's whether It's not.

And are th

I think it's more like " Are you are tourist? are you in Ham - like Heidelberg for a "

Oh, so, I thought that was directly given by the context switch.

That's a different thing. What if the context, which is not set, but still they say things like, " I want to go uh, see the uh the the castle and uh, et cetera. "

Is it.

Well the I kind of thought of " doing business " as more of running an errand type thing.

Yeah. Business on the other hand is, uh, definitely what you're doing.

So if you run out of cash as a tourist, and and and you need to go to the AT

So i wi th

OK. Oh, I see, you may have a task. wh you have to go get money and so you are doing business at that stage.

Mmm.

Right.

Yeah.

" How do I get to the bank? "

I see. Hmm.

And that'll affect whether you want to enter or you if you kinda thing.

OK. So the " tourists " node should be um, very consistent with the context node. Right? If you say that's more their in general what their background is.

Yeah, I think this context node is a bit of a I don't know, like in d Uh Do we wanna have Like it's.

Are you assuming that or not? Like is that to be I mean if that's accurate then that would determine tourist node.

If the context were to set one way or another, that like strongly uh um, says something about whether whether or not they're tourists.

Mm - hmm.

So what's interesting is when it's not when it's set to " unknown ".

Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.

We - what set the they set the context to " unknown "?

OK.

OK.

Right now we haven't observed it, so I guess it's sort of averaging over all those three possibilities.

Mm - hmm.

Mm - hmm.

Right.

But yes, you can set it to un " unknown ".

And if we now do leave everything else as is the results should be the same,

Oops.

right?

No.

Well no, because we Th - the way we set the probabilities might not have Yeah, it's it's an it's an issue, right? Like.

Pretty much the same?

Yeah, it is. So the issue is that um in belief - nets, it's not common to do what we did of like having, you know, a d bunch of values and then " unknown " as an actual value. What's common is you just like don't observe the variable,

Yeah.

Yep.

right, and then just marginalizes.

Yeah.

But uh We didn't do this because we felt that there'd I guess we were thinking in terms of a switch that actually.

We were thi Yeah,

Mm - hmm.

We were th

But uh I don't know y what the right thing is to do for that. I'm not I don't know if I totally am happy with the way it is.

Why don't we Can we, um How long would it take to to add another node on the observatory and, um, play around with it?

Another node on what?

Uh, well it depends on how many things it's linked to.

Let's just say make it really simple. If we create something that for example would be um So th some things can be landmarks in your sense but they can never be entered? So for example s a statue.

Good point.

Yeah?

Right.

Mm - hmm.

So maybe we wanna have " landmark " meaning now " enterable landmark " versus, um something that's simply just a vista point, for example.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah? uh, a statue or um.

So basically it's addressing a variable that's " enterable or not ". So like an " enterable, question mark ".

Also you know, didn't we have a size as one? The size of the landmark.

What?

Cuz if it's.

Um. Not when we were doing this,

Yeah.

but I guess at some point we did.

For some reason I had that OK, that was a thought that I had at one point but then went away.

So you want to have a a node for like whether or not it can be entered?

Well, for example, if we include that, yeah?

Yeah.

um, accessibility or something, yeah? " Is it Can it be entered? "

Hmm.

then of course, this is sort of binary as well.

Yeah.

And then um, there's also the question whether it may be entered. In the sense that, you know, if it's Tom the house of Tom Cruise, you know, it's enterable but you may not enter it. You know? You're not allowed to.

Yeah.

Unless you are, whatever, his his divorce lawyer or something.

Yeah.

Yeah? and um And these are very observable sort of from the from the ontology sort of things.

Way Does it actually help to distinguish between those two cases though? Whether it's practically speaking enterable, or actually physically enterable or not?

y y If If you're running an errand you maybe more likely to be able to enter places that are usually not al w you're not usually not allowed to uh m

It seems like it would for uh, uh determining whether they wanna go into it or not.

Well I can see why.

Cuz they.

Let's get this uh b clearer. S so it's matrix between if it's not enterable, period.

Whether it's a Whether it's a public building, and whether it's actually has a door.

Yeah, exactly.

OK.

This is sort of uh

So Tom Cruise's house is not a public building

Mm - hmm.

but it has a door. But the thing is.

Mm - hmm.

Right.

OK, sh explain to me why it's necessary to distinguish between whether something has a door and is not public. Or, if something It seems like it's equivalent to say that it doesn't have a door a and it.

Mm - hmm.

Or " not public " and " not a door " are equivalent things,

Yeah.

it seems like in practice.

Right. Yeah. So we would have What does it mean, then, that we have to we have an object type statue. That really is an object type. So there is there's gonna be a bunch of statues.

Right.

And then we have, for example, an object type, hmm, that's a hotel. How about hotels?

OK.

So, the most famous building in Heidelberg is actually a hotel. It's the hotel Zum Ritter, which is the only Renaissance building in Heidelberg that was left after the big destruction and for the Thirty Years War, blah - blah - blah.

Hmm. Does it have nice walls?

It has wonderful walls. Um - And lots of detail, c and carvings, engravings and so forth,

Excellent.

so. But, um, it's still an unlikely candidate for the Tango mode I must say. But. Um. So s So if you are a d Well it's very tricky. So I guess your question is so far I have no really arg no real argument why to differentiate between statues as statues and houses of celebrities, from that point of view. Huh. OK. Let Let's do a Can we add, just so I can see how it's done, uh, a " has door " property or?

OK.

What would it, uh, connect to? Like, what would, uh, it affect?

Um, I think, um, it might affect Oh actually it's it it wouldn't affect any of our nodes, right?

What I was thinking was if you had a like.

Oh it's it affects th The " doing business " is certainly not.

You could affect Theoretically you could affect " doing business " with " has door ".

Yeah. OK.

Hmm.

It should, um, inhibit that,

Right.

Let's see.

right?

Yeah, I don't know if JavaBayes is nice about that. It might be that if you add a new thing pointing to a variable, you just like it just overwrites everything. But you can check.

Well, we have it saved. So. We can rel open it up again.

OK. It's true.

The safety net.

I think you could just add it. I mean, I have before OK. Whew!

Well that's fine, but we have to see the function now. Has it become all point fives or not?

Oh, right.

Let's see. So this is " has door " Uh, true, false. That's acceptable. And I want to edit the function going to that, right? Oh no.

No. This is fine,

Right. It was fine.

this business.

added this one.

Yep.

This.

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Oh.

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That's kind of annoying.

OK, so just dis dismiss everything. Close it and and load up the old state so it doesn't screw screw that up.

Let's see. Oops.

Hmm.

Maybe you can read in?

Ha - So have you used JavaBayes a lot?

Yes. Really I ha I've I haven't used it a lot and I haven't used it in the last you know many months so

OK.

um, uh, we can ask someone.

It might be worth uh asking around.

Um.

Like, we looked at sort of uh a page that had like a bunch of.

Yeah. Srini.

OK. Yeah, S I guess he'd be the person.

Srini's the one to ask I would say.

Yeah.

Um. He might know.

Cuz Yeah.

And.

I mean in a way this is a lot of good features in Java it's cra has a GUI and it's uh.

Mm - hmm.

I guess those are the main two things. It does learning, it has.

Mm - hmm.

No it doesn't, actually.

Yeah.

I didn't think it did learning.

What?

Maybe it did a little bit of learning,

OK.

I don't remember.

Oh right. Maybe you're right. OK. Right. But uh it's free.

Which is w quite positive, yeah.

But uh, yeah. Maybe another thing that uh But I mean its interface is not the greatest. So.

But actually it had an interface.

Mm - hmm.

A lot of them were like, you know.

Yep.

Command line.

Huh.

What is the c code? Can w can we see that? How do you write the code

The c

or do you actually never have to write any code there?

Yeah. There is actually a text file that you can edit. But it's You don't have to do that.

There's like an XML format for Bayes - nets.

Is it XML?

The - there is one. I don't know if this uses it.

Oh, I see. No this doesn't use it.

But it.

I didn't think it did.

Yeah, the the.

You can look at the text file.

Yeah.

But do you have it here?

Uh, yes I do actually.

Well, maybe you don't.

Let me see.

Oh yes, of course.

Oh man,

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n uh.

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One of these days, it should open this, theoretically.

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Oh.

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God!

OK.

Through the old Notepad. That's my favorite editor.

I like I like Word Pad because it has the uh the returns,

Wordpad? I.

the carriage returns on some of them.

Mm - hmm. OK.

You know how they get " auto - fills " I guess,

Mmm - hmm.

or whatever you call it.

Anyway, there it is.

So this is sort of LISP - y? No.

Uh, Yeah.

It just basically looks like it just specifies a bunch of

Mm - hmm.

Yeah. That's how actual probability tables are specified.

Yeah.

As, like, lists of numbers.

Mm - hmm.

So theoretically you could edit that.

Mm - hmm.

It just that it's.

But they're not very friendly.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah the ordering isn't very clear on.

So you'd have to like figure out Like you have to go and.

Right. The layout of the table.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Actually we could write a program that could generate this.

Well I Yeah. I think so.

Yeah you could.

You could.

it's not.

We were doing it.

Yeah we can maybe write an interface th for uh entering probability distributions easily, something like like a little script. That might be worth it.

And that might do.

Yeah. I actually seem to recall Srini complaining about something to do with Entering probability so this is probably

The other thing is it is in Java

Yeah, it's Yeah.

so.

We could manipulate the source itself?

Yeah.

Or.

Do you have the true source files or just the class?

I don't know if he actually.

Yeah. Uh, yeah. we do

Does he.

I I saw directory called " source ",

Oh.

Mm - hmm.

I didn't e

or Yeah. Go up one?

Up one. Ah yes, good.

Yeah.

" Source ". That's that's quite nice.

I don't know if it actually manipulate the source, though. That might be a bit complicated.

Mm - hmm.

I think it might it might be simpler to just have a script that, you know It's, like, friendly,

The d the data tables.

it allows you enter things well.

Yeah.

Right.

But if th if there is an XML file that or format that it can also read I mean it just reads this, right? When it starts.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah I know there is an I was looking on the we web page and he's updated it for an XML version of I guess Bayes - nets. There's a Bayes - net spec for in XML.

Mm - hmm.

He's Like this guy has?

Yeah.

The JavaBayes guy? So but, e he doesn't use it. So in what sense has he updated it?

Well th you can either you ca or you can read both.

Oh. I see.

To my understanding.

OK. That would be awesome.

Oh.

Because uh Well at least the uh I could have misread the web page, I have a habit of doing that, but.

OK, wonderful.

OK.

So you got more slides?

Do I have more slides? Um yes, one more. " Future Work ". I think every presentation have a should have a " Future Work " slide. But uh it's basically we already talked about all this stuff, so.

Um. The additional thing is I guess learning the probabilities, also. E That's maybe, I don't know If.

Uh that's future future work.

Does That's Yeah.

Right.

Very future.

Mm - hmm.

And of course if you have a presentation that doesn't have something that doesn't work at all, then you have " What I learned ", as a slide.

Can't you have both?

You could. My first approach failed.

Right.

What I learned. OK, so I think that uh our presentation's finished.

Good.

I know what I like about these meetings is one person will nod, and then the next person will nod, and then it just goes all the way around the room.

So the uh.

I missed my turn.

No I Earlier I went and Bhaskara went and you did it. You did it.

It's like yawning.

It's like yawning.

And this announcement was in stereo.

Ha.

OK. So this means um.

Should I pull up the net again?

Yeah. Could you put the the um, net up again?

Yes. There we go.

Thanks.

And actually I was cuz I got a wireless mike on.

So a more general thing than " discussed admission fee " um, could be I I'm just wondering whether the context, the background context of the discourse might be I don't know, if there's a way to define it or maybe you know generalize it some way um, there might be other cues that, say, um, in the last few utterances there has been something that has strongly associated with say one of the particular modes uh, I don't know if that might be.

Mm - hmm. I think we.

uh, and and into that node would be various various things that that could have specifically come up.

I think a a sort of general strategy here You know, this is this is excellent because um it gets you thinking along these terms is that maybe we ob we could observe a couple of um discourse phenomena such as the admission fee, and something else and something else, that happened in the discourse before.

Mm - hmm. Right.

And um let's make those four. And maybe there are two um So maybe this could be sort of a separate region of the net, which has two has it's own middle layer. Maybe this, you know, has some kind of um, funky thing that di if this and this may influence these hidden nodes of the discourse which is maybe something that is uh, a more general version of the actual phenomenon that you can observe. So things that point towards.

So instead of single node, for like, if they said the word " admission fee ".

Exactly.

" admission fee ", or maybe, you know, " how much to enter "

Yeah.

or you know something, other cues.

Opening hours or something like that.

Exactly. That would all f funnel into one node that would constitute entrance requirements or something like that.

So " pay a visit ".

Mm - hmm.

uh uh d

Sure.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I mean it sort of get into plan recognition kinds of things in the discourse. I mean that's like the bigger um, version of it.

Exactly. Yeah? And then maybe there are some discourse acts if they happened before, um it's more for um a cue that the person actually wants to get somewhere else and that you are in a in a in a route um, sort of proceeding past these things, so this would be just something that where you want to pass it. Hmm? Is that it? However these are of course then the the nodes, the observed nodes, for your middle layer. So this again points to " final destination ", " doing business ", " tourist hurry " and so forth.

Mm - hmm.

OK.

Yeah? And so then we can say, " OK. we have a whole region " in a e

That's a whole set of discourse related cues to your middle layer.

Yeah, exactly. And this is just then just one.

Right?

So e because at the end the more we um add, you know, the more spider - web - ish it's going to become in the middle and the more of hand editing. It's going to get very ugly. But with this way we could say " OK, these are the discourse phenomena. They ra may have there own hidden layer that points to some of the the real hidden layer, um or the general hidden layer.

Sure.

And the same we will be able to do for syntactic information, the verbs used, the object types used, modifiers. And maybe there's a hidden layer for that.

Yep.

And so forth and so forth. Then we have context.

Yeah. So essentially a lot of those nodes can be expanded into little Bayes - nets of their own.

Yep.

Mm - hmm.

Precisely. So.

One thing that's kind of been bugging me when I more I look at this is that the I guess, the fact that the there's a complete separation between the observed features and in the output.

Yeah.

I mean, it makes it cleaner, but then uh I mean.

That's true.

For instance if the discourse does.

What do you mean by that?

well for instance, the " discourse admission fee " node seems like it should point directly to the.

Uh - huh.

or increase the probability of " enter directly " versus " going there via tourist ".

Yeah. Or we could like add more, uh, sort of middle nodes. Like we could add a node like do they want to enter it, which is affected by admission fee and by whether it's closed and by whether it has a door.

Mm - hmm.

Right.

So it's like There are Those are the two options. Either like make an arrow directly or put a new node.

Yeah,

Hmm.

that makes sense.

Yeah. And if it if you do it If you could connect it too hard you may get such phenomenon that like " So how much has it cost to enter? " and the answer is two hundred fifty dollars, and then the persons says um " Yeah I want to see it. " Yeah? meaning " It's way out of my budget " um.

There are places in Germany where it costs two hundred fifty dollars to enter?

Um, nothing comes to mind. Without thinking too hard. Um, maybe, yeah of course, um opera premiers.

Really?

So you know.

Hmm.

Or or any good old Pink Floyd concert.

I see. If you want to see " The Magic Flute " or something.

Yeah.

Or maybe um, a famous restaurant. or, I don't know. There are various things that you might w not want to eat a meal there but your own table.

The Spagos of Heidelberg.

I think that the h I mean nothing beats the the admission charge prices in Japan. So there, two hundred dollars is is moderate for getting into a discotheque. You know. Then again, everything else is free then once you're ins in there.

Really.

Food and drink and so forth. So. I mean. But i you know, i we can Something Somebody can have discussed the admission fee and u the answer is s if we um, you know, um still, based on that result is never going to enter that building.

Hmm.

You know? Because it's just too expensive.

Oh yeah, I think I see. So the discourse refers to " admission fee " but it just turns out that they change their mind in the middle of the discourse.

Yeah. you have to have some notion of not just I mean there's a there's change across several turns of discourse

Right.

Mm - hmm.

so I don't know how if any of this was discussed but how i if it all this is going to interact with whatever general uh, other other discourse processing that might be happen.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah.  Yeah.

I mean.

What sort of discourse processing is uh are the How much is built into SmartKom and.

It works like this. The uh, um I mean. The first thing we get is that already the intention is sort of t They tried to figure out the intention, right? simply by parsing it. And this um m won't differentiate between all modes, yeah? but at least it'll tell us " OK here we have something that somebody that wants to go someplace, now it's up for us to figure out what kind of going there is is is happening, and um, if the discourse takes a couple of turns before everything all the information is needed, what happens is you know the parser parses it and then it's handed on to the discourse history which is, um o one of the most elaborate elaborate modules. It's it's actually the the whole memory of the entire system, that knows what wh who said what, which was what was presented. It helps an an anaphora resolution and it and it fills in all the structures that are omitted, so, um, because you say " OK, how can I get to the castle? " Oh, how how much is it? " and um " yeah I would like uh um to g let's do it " and so forth. So even without an a ana anaphora somebody has to make sure that information we had earlier on is still here.

Mm - hmm.

Because not every module keeps a memory of everything that happened. so whenever the uh, um person is not actually rejecting what happened before, so as in " No I really don't want to see that movie. I'd rather stay home and watch TV " um What movie was selected in what cinema in what town is is going to be sort of added into the disc into the representations every di at each dialogue step, by the discourse model discourse model, Yeah, that's what it's called. and, um, it does some help in the anaphora resolution and it also helps in coordinating the gesture screen issues. So a person pointing to something on the screen, you know, the discourse model actually stores what was presented at what location on the s on the screen

Hmm.

so it's a it's a rather huge huge thing but um  um we can sort of It has a very clear interface. We can query it whether admission fees were discussed in the last turn and and the turn before that or you know how deep we want to search

OK.

um which is a question. How deep do we want to sear, you know? Um but we should try to keep in mind that, you know, we're doing this sort of for research, so we we should find a limit that's reasonable and not go, you know, all the way back to Adam and Eve. You know, did that person ever discuss admissions fee fees in his entire life? And the dialogues are pretty pretty you know concise and Anyway.

So one thing that might be helpful which is implicit in the use of " admission fee discussion " as a cue for entry, is thinking about the plans that various people might have. Like all the different sort of general schemas that they might be following OK. This person is um, finding out information about this thing in order to go in as a tourist or finding out how to get to this place in order to do business. Um, because then anything that's a cue for one of the steps would be slight evidence for that overall plan. Um, I don't know. They're in in non in sort of more traditional AI kinds of plan recognition things you sort of have you know, some idea at each turn of agent doing something, " OK, wha what plans is this a consistent with? " and then get s some more information and then you see " here's a sequence that this sort of roughly fits into ". It it might be useful here too.

Mm - hmm.

I I don't know how you know you'd have to figure out what knowl what knowledge representation would work for that.

I mean the u u

Hmm.

It's in the these these these plan schemas. I mean there are some some of them are extremely elaborate, you know. " What do you need need to buy a ticket? "

Mm - hmm.

You know? and it it's fifty steps,

Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.

huh? just for buying a ticket at a ticket counter, you know, and and maybe that's helpful to look at it to look at those. It's amazing what human beings can do. W when we talked uh we had the example, you know, of you being uh a s a person on a ticket counter working at railway station and somebody r runs up to you with a suitcase in his hands, says New York and you say Track seven, huh? And it's because you know that that person actually is following, you know You execute a whole plan of going through a hundred and fifty steps, you know, without any information other than " New York ", huh? inferring everything from the context. So, works. Um, even though there is probably no train from here to New York, right?

Mmm. Not direct.

You'd uh probably have to transfer in Chicago.

Mm - hmm. But uh it's possible. Um, no you probably have to transfer also somewhere else. Right? Is that t San Francisco, Chicago?

I think.

Is that possible?

One time I saw a report on trains, and I think there is a l I don't know if I thought there was a line that went from somewhere, maybe it was Sacramento to Chicago,

Mm - hmm.

but there was like a California to Chicago line of some sort.

Hmm.

I could be wrong though. It was a while ago.

The Transcontinental Railroad, doesn't that ring a bell?

Yeah but I don't know if it's still.

I think it has to exist somewhere.

They might have blown it up.

Well it never went all the way, right? I mean you always had to change trains at Omaha,

Well most of the way.

right? One track ended there and the other one started at five meters away from that

Uh. Mm - hmm. Yeah.

and sort of.

Well. You seem to know better than we do so.

yeah? Has anybody ever been on an Amtrak?

I have. But not transcontinentally.

I'm frightened by Amtrak myself.

What? Why?

I just They seem to have a lot of accidents on the Amtrak.

Really?

Their reputation is very bad.

Yeah. Yeah.

huh? It's not maybe reality.

It's not like German trains. Like German trains are really great so.

But you know, I don't know whether it's which ones are safer, you know, statistically.

Um, but they're faster.

Yeah.

Much faster. Mm - hmm.

And there's much more of them. Yeah, they're Yeah, it's way better

yeah I used um Amtrak quite a bit on the east coast and I was surprised. It was actually OK.

Mm - hmm.

You know, on Boston New York,

Yeah.

New York Rhode Island,

Yeah.

whatever,

I've done that kind of thing.

Boston.

Mm - hmm.

Yeah. But That's a different issue.

This is going to be an interesting transcript.

Hmm?

I I want to see what it does with uh " landmark - iness ". That's.

Yeah.

Let's all say it a few more times.

It'd help it figure it out.

So.

Just kidding. Right.

Yeah.

So by the way tha that structure that Robert drew on the board was like more um, cue - type - based, right, here's like we're gonna segment off a bit of stuff that comes from discourse and then some of the things we're talking about here are more you know, we mentioned maybe if they talk about um, I don't know, entering or som you know like they might be more task - based.

Hmm.

So I I don't know if there There's obviously some m more than one way of organizing the variables into something

I think that um What you guys did is really nicely sketching out different tasks, and maybe some of their conditions.

so. Mm - hmm.

One task is more likely you're in a hurry when you do that kind of s doing business,

Mm - hmm.

and and less in a hurry when uh you're a tourist Um tourists may have never have final destinations, you know because they are eternally traveling around so maybe what what what happened what might happen is that we do get this sort of task - based middle layer,

Mm - hmm.

and then we'll get these sub - middle layers, that are more cue - based.

Mm - hmm. That feed into those?

Nah?

Mm - hmm.

Might be might be a nice dichotomy of of the world. So, um I suggest w to for to proceed with this in in the sense that maybe throughout this week the three of us will will talk some more about maybe segmenting off different regions, and we make up some some toy a observable " nodes " is that what th

Refined y re just refine the.

What's the technical term?

OK. For which?

For the uh nodes that are observable? The " outer layer "?

Just observable nodes,

The features,

evidence nodes?

I don't know, whatever you.

Feature ma make up some features for those Identify four regions,

Yeah.

maybe make up some features for each region and uh and uh, uh and uh middle layer for those. And then these should then connect somehow to the more plan - based deep space

Yeah.

Basically just refine some of the more general nodes.

Yep. The - they they will be aud ad - hoc for for for some time to come.

Yeah, this is totally like The probabilities and all are completely ad - hoc. We need to look at all of them. I mean but, they're even like I mean like, close to the end we were like, uh, you know we were like uh really ad - hoc.

It's a even distribution. Like, whatever.

Right? Cuz if it's like, uh If it's four things coming in, right? And, say, some of them have like three possibilities and all that. So you're thinking like like a hundred and forty four or something possible things numbers to enter,

And That's terrible.

right? So.

Some of them are completely absurd too, like they want to enter, but it's closed,

That's uh Well.

it's night time, you know there are tourists and all this weird stuff happens at the line up and you're like.

Yeah, the only like possible interpretation is that they are like come here just to rob the museum or something to that effect.

confused.

In which case you're supposed to alert the authorities, and see appropriate action.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, another thing to do, um, is also to, um I guess to ask around people about other Bayes - net packages. Is Srini gonna be at the meeting tomorrow, do you know?

Maybe.

The day after tomorrow.

Wait.

Quite possibly.

Wednesday.

Day after tomorrow.

Oh, oh, sorry.

Yeah.

Sorry, Wednesday,

Who's talking on Wednesday?

Maybe we can ask him about it.

yeah. Mmm.

I haven't J Jerry never sent out a sent out an email, did he, ever?

No. But he mentioned at the last meeting that someone was going to be talking, I forget who.

Oh, isn't Ben?

Uh.

Ben?

Ben, then,

I think it's Ben actually,

Ben.

Ah!

yeah, um, giving his job talk I think. um, Sorry. I was just reading the screen.

OK.

Yeah.

Oh.

So the uh That will be one one thing we could do. I actually uh, have Um, also we can uh, start looking at the SmartKom tables and I will.

Right.

I actually wanted to show that to you guys now but um.

Do you want to trade?

Um, no I I actually made a mistake because it it fell asleep and when Linux falls asleep on my machine it's it doesn't wake up ever, so I had to reboot

Oh, no.

And if I reboot without a network, I will not be able to start SmartKom, because I need to have a network.

Uh.

So we'll do that t maybe uh.

But. OK. But once you start sart start SmartKom you can be on You don't have to be on a network anymore. Is that the deal?

Yep.

Ah, interesting.

Why does SmartKom need a network?

Um it looks up some stuff that, you know, is is that is in the written by the operating system only if it if you get a DHCP request, so it you know, my computer does not know its IP address, you know?

Ah.

You know. So. Unless it boots up with networking.

It's plugged in. Yeah.

And I don't have an IP address, they can't look up they don't know who localhost is, and so forth and so forth.

Hmm.

Always fun. But it's a, um, simple solution. We can just um, go downstairs and and and look at this, but maybe not today. The other thing um I will oh yeah, OK, I have to report um, data collection. We interviewed Fey,

Mm - hmm.

She's willing to do it, meaning be the wizard for the data collection, also maybe transcribe a little bit, if she has to, but also recruiting subjects, organizing them, and so forth. So that looks good. Jerry however suggested that we should uh have a trial run with her, see whether she can actually do all the uh spontaneous, eloquent and creativeness that we uh expect of the wizard. And I talked to Liz about this and it looks as if Friday afternoon will be the time when we have a first trial run for the data.

So who would be the subject of this trial run?

Pardon me?

Who Will there be a Is one Is you one of you gonna be the subject? Like are you.

Um Liz also volunteered to be the first subject, which I think might be even better than us guys.

Good.

One of us, yeah.

If we do need her for the technical stuff, then of course one of you has to sort of uh jump in.

I like how we've you guys have successfully narrowed it down. " Is one of you going to be the subject? " Is one of you jump in.

Reference. I haven't done it yet.

Well I just figured it has to be someone who's, um, familiar enough with the data to cause problems for the wizard, so we can, uh, see if they're you know good.

Oh plants? e u someone who can plant difficult things.

Yeah. I mean that's what we wanna check, right?

Um,

Well, in this case it's a p it's a sort of testing of the wizard rather than of the subject.

Isn't that what it is?

It's uh.

yes w we we would like to test the wizard, but you know, if we take a subject that is completely unfamiliar with the task, or any of the set up, we get a more realistic

I guess that would be reasonable.

Yeah.

you know, set up as.

Yeah. I know. That's probably a good enough test of.

Uh - huh.

Yeah.

Sort of having an actively antagonistic, uh.

Yeah. That might be a little unfair. Um.

Yeah.

I'm sure if we uh, You think there's a chance we might need Liz for, whatever, the technical side of things? I'm sure we can get other people around who don't know anything um, if we want another subject.

Yeah, yeah.

You know. Like I can drag Ben into it or something. Although he might cause problems but. So, is it a experimental setup for the um, data collection totally ready determined?

I like that. " Test the wizard. " I want that on a T - shirt.

Um I think it's it's it's I mean experimental setup u on the technical issue yes, except we st I think we still need uh a recording device for the wizard, just a tape recorder that's running in a room.

Mm - hmm.

But um in terms of specifying the scenario, um uh uh we've gotten a little further

Mm - hmm.

but um we wanted to wait until we know who is the wizard, and have the wizard partake in the ultimate sort of definition probe. So so if if on Friday it turns out that she really likes it and and we really like her, then nothing should stop us from sitting down next week and  getting all the details completely figured out.

Mm - hmm.

And um.

OK. So the ideal task um, will have whatever I don't know how much the structure of the evolving Bayes - net will af affect Like we wanna we wanna be able to collect as much of the variables that are needed for that,

Mmm - yea - some.

right? in the course of the task? Well not all of them but you know.

Bu - e e e I'm even This this Tango, Enter, Vista is sort of, itself, an ad - hoc scenario.

Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.

The the basic u um idea behind the uh data collection was the following. The data we get from Munich is very command line, simple linguistic stuff.

Mm - hmm.

Hardly anything complicated. No metaphors whatsoever.

Mm - hmm.

Not a rich language. So we wanted just to collect data, to get that that that elicits more, uh, that elicits richer language.

Mm - hmm.

And we actually did not want to constrain it too much,

Mm - hmm.

you know? Just see what people say. And then maybe we'll discover the phenomenon the phenomena that we want to solve, you know, with whatever engine we we come up with. Um. So this this this is a parallel track, you know, there they hopefully meet,

OK. So in other words this data collection is more general.

but since.

It could it could be used for not just this task.

It should tell us, you know, what kind of phenomenon could occur, it should tell us also maybe something about the difference between people who think they speak to a computer versus people who think they speak to a human being

Mm - hmm.

and the sort of differences there. So it may get us some more information on the human - machine pragmatics, um, that no one knows anything about, as of yesterday. And uh nothing has changed  since then, so. Uh. And secondly, now that of course we have sort of started to lick blood with this, and especially since um Johno can't stop Tango - ing, we may actually include, you know, those those intentions. So now I think we should maybe have at least one navigational task with with sort of explicit uh

Mm - hmm.

not ex it's implicit that the person wants to enter,

Mm - hmm.

and maybe some task where it's more or less explicit that the person wants to take a picture,

Mm - hmm.

or see it or something. So that we can label it. I mean, that's how we get a corpus that we can label.

Mm - hmm. Exactly.

Whereas, you know, if we'd just get data we'd never know what they actually wanted, we'd get no cues. Yep.

Alrighty.

OK.

That was that.

So is this the official end of the meeting now?

Yep.

Looks like it.

So what's " Economics, the fallacy "?

Ma

I just randomly label things. So that has nothing to do with economics or anything.

Oh, really?

Maybe we ought to switch off these things before we continue.

OK.

OK. Switching o

Question: What did the participants agree to do after the issues with the inference diagram were discussed?

Response: The participants aimed to improve the inference diagram. To achieve this, they agreed to segment off different regions and define four regions. They further agreed to make up some features for these regions, identify a middle layer, and link the middle layer to a deeper plan-based space.

Question: Can you summarize the primary tasks that were identified to be done to enhance the inference diagram?

Response:
* To enhance the inference diagram, the participants agreed to:
    * Segment off four regions.
    * Make up features for those regions.
    * Identify a middle layer.
    * Link the middle layer to a deeper plan-based space.

Question: Can you summarize Bhaskara's comments regarding landmark iness?

Response: There is no participant named Bhaskara in the meeting.

Question: What further clarified the concept of landmark-iness in the discussion?

Response:
* Tourist landmarks are notable buildings or popular attractions that tourists commonly visit.
* Navigational landmarks, however, serve a different purpose and are not considered in the context of the inference diagram.

Question: What was their reasoning for excluding navigational landmarks from the inference diagram?

Response: The participants chose to exclude navigational landmarks from the inference diagram because they are distinct from tourist landmarks and have a different purpose

Question: Can you summarize the key points discussed about the concept of landmark iness?

Response:
* The concept of landmark-iness primarily centered around differentiating between tourist landmarks and navigational landmarks.
* Tourist landmarks are popular attractions or notable buildings commonly visited by tourists, while navigational landmarks serve a different purpose.
* The participants chose to exclude navigational landmarks from the inference diagram due to their distinct nature and purpose compared to tourist landmarks.

Question: Besides the primary tasks, were there any additional points of discussion regarding the inference diagram?

Response: There is no information regarding additional points of discussion about the inference diagram in the meeting.

Question: What was their reasoning behind using belief nets for the inference diagram?

Response: The participants decided on belief nets for the inference diagram as they are widely used and allow for probabilistic representation. Furthermore, belief nets are relatively easy to understand and interpret, making them suitable for the task.

Question: Did the participants discuss the possibility of adding a recording device for the wizard during data collection?

Response: The participants considered the potential of employing a tape recorder running in a room to record the wizard's actions while collecting data.

Question: What was decided regarding the mode of transportation participants will be using to get to the meeting?

Response: I cannot answer that as information about transportation is not available in the provided meeting.