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An End-to-End Conversational Style Matching Agent

, 2019
We present an end-to-end voice-based conversational agent that is able to engage in naturalistic multi-turn dialogue and align with the interlocutor's conversational style. The system uses a series of deep neural network components for speech recognition,
Bartneck Christoph, Bickmore Timothy, DeVault David, Elofson Greg, Gratch Jonathan, Hirschberg Julia, Pecune Florian, S, Tannen Deborah, Thomas Paul   +9 more
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Multi-Microworld Conversational Agent with RDF Knowledge Graph Integration

Information, 2022
We live in an era where time is a scarce resource and people enjoy the benefits of technological innovations to ensure prompt and smooth access to information required for our daily activities.
Gabriel Boroghina, Dragos Georgian Corlatescu, Mihai Dascalu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conversational Sensing [PDF]

, 2014
Recent developments in sensing technologies, mobile devices and context-aware user interfaces have made it possible to represent information fusion and situational awareness as a conversational process among actors - human and machine agents - at or near
Bakdash, Jonathan Z., Braines, Dave, Gwilliams, Chris, Parizas, Christos, Pizzocaro, Diego, Preece, Alun   +5 more
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A Model-Driven Approach Employing DSL and Generation Templates to Accelerate the Development of Conversational Agents for Smart Tourism

IEEE Access
Conversational agents are intelligent, ubiquitous software applications widely used across various sectors, such as commerce, tourism, and more. Their key benefits include automating tasks, improving customer service, and ensuring service availability ...
Charaf Ouaddi, Lamya Benaddi, Adnane Souha, Hamza Abdelmalek, Abdeslam Jakimi, Rachid Saadane   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama [PDF]

, 2010
We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor.
Barnden, John, Zhang, Li
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CoachAI: A Conversational Agent Assisted Health Coaching Platform

, 2019
Poor lifestyle represents a health risk factor and is the leading cause of morbidity and chronic conditions. The impact of poor lifestyle can be significantly altered by individual behavior change.
Fadhil, Ahmed, Schiavo, Gianluca, Wang, Yunlong   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Tools for the Development of Conversational Agents

Computer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2023
Conversational agents are being increasingly adopted in various domains, such as e-commerce and customer services, and as a direct communication channel between companies and end-users. Several tools have been developed to facilitate their definition and
Lamya Benaddi, Charaf Ouaddi, Ismaïl Khriss, Brahim Ouchao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent

, 2018
Multimodal search-based dialogue is a challenging new task: It extends visually grounded question answering systems into multi-turn conversations with access to an external database.
Agarwal, Shubham, Dusek, Ondrej, Konstas, Ioannis, Rieser, Verena   +3 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Teachable Conversational Agents

CoRR, 2021
The traditional process of building interactive machine learning systems can be viewed as a teacher-learner interaction scenario where the machine-learners are trained by one or more human-teachers. In this work, we explore the idea of using a conversational interface to investigate the interaction between human-teachers and interactive machine ...
Nalin Chhibber, Edith Law
openaire   +2 more sources