- Grammatical parsing
- Speech acts
- Dialogue management
- Triples based memory
- BDI motivation model
You can read the paper Academia.edu, and the work dates back to at least 2017, so a few papers to catch up on!
An Evaluation of a Linguistically Motivated Conversational Software Agent Framework
A cracking paper from Dr Kulvinder Panesar of York St John University on a design for a "Conversational Software Agent" (aka chatbot) which seems to have all the elements we've been championing for some time:
