001 Minutes March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Introduce new members: https://www.w3.org/community/conv/
Answer question together: How is this group different from the Voice Assistant Standardisation Community Group?
Review charter: https://conversational-interfaces.github.io/charter/
Review tasks
Decide TPAC 2019 Involvement
Decide next meeting time

[Feng] Create a GitHub issue to discuss moving "optimization techniques" back in scope (https://github.com/conversational-interfaces/charter/issues
[Feng] Explore optimization techniques used by other chat-bot systems. (for example, Google's knowledge graph is huge, but what optimizations have become standard?)
[Victor] Explore and research "Utility Models" used in other chat-bots, so that we can draft a "Personal Utility Model" spec prepared here: https://github.com/conversational-interfaces/pum
[Nelson, Nishant] Complete DMPL specs: https://github.com/w3c/dmpl

Voice Assistant Standardisation Community Group is limited in scope to voice assistants and correspondingly audio signal processing. Our group (CI) is different because our focus is not on audio sensory data, but instead on the symbolic logic and flow of conversations.
Nishant: The charter specs are our current priority.
- Victor: for spec #5, a tree-like structure can help
- Feng: Maybe "Out of Scope" topic #3 about optimization should be in scope.
Feng: How to minimize/compress size of files, such as the dialogue definition language (DMPL).
- Nishant: Could be an active area of study for us.
To keep it simple for now, explicit tasks will be written down in meeting minutes.
TPAC is cool, but too far away from the members in the US. If someone elsewhere finds it of interest, please let us know.
Next meeting will be next month after April 15th, to discuss the state of our report drafts.