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Influences and Embodied Conversational Agents

International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2004
We aim at creating an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) that would exhibit not only a consistent behavior with her personality and contextual environment factors but also that would be defined as an individual and not as a generic agent. The behavior of an agent depends not only on factors defining her individuality (such as her culture, her social ...
Vincent Maya, Myriam Lamolle, Catherine Pelachaud   +2 more
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Conversational Agents

Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
In the last five years, work on software that interacts with people via typed or spoken natural language, called chatbots, intelligent assistants, social bots, virtual companions, non-human players, and so on, increased dramatically. Chatbots burst into prominence in 2016. Then came a wave of research, more development, and some use.
Richard Jacques, Asbjørn Følstad, Elizabeth Gerber, Jonathan Grudin, Ewa Luger, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Dakuo Wang   +6 more
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A multiple-application conversational agent

Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interface - IUI '04, 2004
In this paper, we describe the rationale behind and architecture of a conversational agent capable of speech enabling multiple applications.
Steven I. Ross, Elizabeth Brownholtz, Robert Armes   +2 more
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A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005
In our paper last year, we described our language-training program, which utilizes Baldi as a tutor, who guides students through a variety of exercises designed to teach vocabulary and grammar, to improve speech articulation, and to develop linguistic and phonological awareness. In this paper, we describe the technology of Baldi in more detail, and how
Dominic W. Massaro, Slim Ouni, Michael M. Cohen, Rashid Clark   +3 more
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Conversational Agents in a Virtual World

2011
This paper presents a system that builds on theoretical and experimental insights from linguistic pragmatics, uses novel techniques from computational linguistics and combines them with robust baseline technologies to provide intelligent Non Player Characters (NPCs), which naturally act and talk in a virtual world. Current NPCs still lack the necessary
Peter Adolphs, Anton Benz, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Manfred Krifka, Alexandra Strekalova, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu 0001   +8 more
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Interaction with embodied conversational agents

Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, 2005
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer-controlled synthetic characters that can engage in dialog with users. This tutorial will present an overview of techniques and methods relating to the design, construction, and evaluation of ECAs that interact appropriately with users.
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On Partial Deduction and Conversational Agents

2008
Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation by querying another agent because it needs to satisfy a specific goal. This process allocates a new goal to the agent receiving the initial query, starting new dialogs with other agents ...
Mariela Morveli Espinoza, Josep Puyol-Gruart   +1 more
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Pedagogical embodied conversational agent

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings., 2004
A virtual reality instructor that autonomously trains a human learner in network virtual environments, respond to multi-modal input across computer networks, and applies proven pedagogical techniques during instruction has the potential to improve human learning performance anytime, anywhere, and at any pace. Building virtual instructors, however, have
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Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations

2002
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversations are cornerstone to support autonomous and heterogeneous agents, and that conversational coherence can be supported through public definitions of speech act and ...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
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Text Understanding for Conversational Agent

2005
This paper describes a text understanding system for conversational agents. The system resolves zero, direct and indirect anaphors in Japanese texts by integrating two sorts of linguistic resources: a hand-annotated corpus with various relations and automatically constructed case frames. The corpus has relevance tags which consist of predicate-argument
Daisuke Kawahara, Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi   +2 more
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