First Leap Towards Development of Dialogue System for Autonomous Bus

This paper describes the dialogue system for the autonomous bus. Without driver onboard in an autonomous bus, a passenger needs someone to talk to when in need. In that scenario, the dialogue system in this work helps a passenger to manage travel plan. The system is designed to work in both chat-oriented and goal-oriented conversations. The internal design is rule-based utterance matching. We also describe the database, which can be easily expandable by the administrator for future development. The dialogue system deployment on android smartphone interface is demonstrated in this paper.