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BIRTHDAY
2009
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Semi-formal Evaluation of Conversational Characters
Conversational dialogue systems cannot be evaluated in a fully formal manner, because dialogue is heavily dependent on context and current dialogue theory is not precise enough to ...
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Anton...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Utilizing Review Summarization in a Spoken Recommendation System
In this paper we present a framework for spoken recommendation systems. To provide reliable recommendations to users, we incorporate a review summarization technique which extract...
Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Combination of stochastic understanding and machine translation systems for language portability of dialogue systems
In this paper, several approaches for language portability of dialogue systems are investigated with a focus on the spoken language understanding (SLU) component. We show that the...
Bassam Jabaian, Laurent Besacier, Fabrice Lefevre
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
LREC
2010
152views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters
NPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long as the ...
Anton Leuski, David R. Traum