Many potential applications of virtual agents require an agent to conduct multiple conversations with users. An effective and engaging agent should modify its behavior in realisti...
Abstract. Human-computer interaction (HCI) has fundamentally changed computing. The ubiquity of HCI can be seen in several kinds of application areas, such as text editing, hyperte...
Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understand...
Douglas W. Cunningham, Martin Breidt, Mario Kleine...
While a significant amount of research has been devoted to textual entailment, automated entailment from conversational scripts has received less attention. To address this limita...