AGATA	Automatic generation of IAML from text acquisition
ASD	Autistic spectrum disorder
ASK	Alexa Skills Kit
AI	Artificial intelligence
AIML	Artificial-intelligence Markup Language
ASR	Automatic speech recognition
ASRU	Automatic speech recognition
B2B	Business to business
CA	Conversational agents
CCG	Combinatory categorial grammar
CFG	Context-free grammar
CORGI	Commonsense reasoning by instruction
CTGAN	Conditional text generative adversarial network
DAN	Deep average network
DBN	Dynamic Bayesian network
DNN	Deep neural network
DSTC	Dialogue-state-tracking Challenge
DOAJ	Directory of open-access journals
DRL	Deep reinforcement learning
DRQN	Deep recurrent QNetwork
DSTC	Dialogue system technology challenge
ECA	Embodied conversational agent
ED	Emotion detection
EQ	Emotional quotient
FAQ	Frequently asked questions
GAN	Generative adversarial network
HQ	Hedonic quality
HRED	Hierarchical recurrent encoder–decoder
IoT	Internet of Things
IQ	Intelligence quotient
IR	Information retrieval
IRIS	Informal response interactive system
IS	Information systems
ITS	Intelligent tutoring systems
IVR	Interactive voice response
JA	Joint attention
LD	Linear dichroism
LIA	Learning by instruction agent
LSA	Latent semantic analysis
LSTM	Long short-term memory
MDP	Markov decision process
MDPI	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
ML	Machine learning
MMI	Maximum mutual information
MOOC	Massive open online course
MT	Machine translation
NBT	Neural belief tracking
NLG	Natural-language generation
NLP	Natural-language processing
NLU	Natural-language understanding
PCFG	Probabilistic context-free grammar
POS	Part-of-speech
PBD	Programming-by-demonstration
RNN	Recurrent neural network
ROUGE	Recall-oriented understudy for gisting evaluation
SAR	Socially assistive robotics
SCE	Socio-cognitive engineering
SGD	Schema-guided dialogue
SL	Sign language
SQUAD	Stanford question-answering dataset
SSA	Sensibleness and specificity average
SVM	Support vector machine
TF-IDF	Term frequency inverse document frequency
TLA	Three-letter acronym
UX	User experience