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Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

John Daniel Thimsen

Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar

David L Johnson

Vikas Jain

Shamitha Somashekar

Carlos P Gomes

Joseph Prasanna Fernando

Min Wei

Shishir Sridhar Bharathi

Kaviraj Singh

Ling Hu

Scot J Gellock

Dialog visualizations are created to enable analysis of interactions between a user and a speech recognition system used to implement user commands. Spoken commands from the user may be classified, along with system responses to the spoken commands, to enable aggregation of communication exchanges that form dialog. This data may then be used to create a dialog visualization. The dialog visualization may enable an analyst to visually explore different branches of the interactions represented in the dialog visualization. The dialog visualization may show a trajectory of the dialog, which may be explored in an interactive manner by the analyst.

Dialog visualization

A computing workflow system has a workflow process definition contained in a workflow table as script functions. The workflow table is part of an extended database schema operating with an extended store, a workflow engine and a script engine. The novel workflow system includes a server database having a data table and an associated workflow table. A workflow extended store is communicatively coupled to the server database. A workflow engine is also communicatively coupled to the server database and to the workflow extended store. Further, a script engine is communicatively coupled to the workflow engine. The workflow table includes workflow rules and associated code to be executed by the workflow engine. Each row of the workflow table represents a workflow step. Script functions are defined in the workflow table to evaluate the condition and execute the action of each workflow step. The rules and associated code in the workflow table is both declarative and procedural. The workflow engine compares the data change information from the extended store procedure with the workflow definition in the workflow table and determines the appropriate step that needs to be executed. Then it checks execution permissions on that step. If execute permission is granted, the workflow engine evaluates the workflow step condition against the workflow table and, if true, it executes the step action. Upon completing the step action, the workflow engine commits all the changes made to the current item or to other items in the database.

Workflow as data-transition driven, scriptable state machines

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