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ACII
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
The Relationship between Carelessness and Affect in a Cognitive Tutor
We study the relationship between student carelessness and affect among high-school students using a Cognitive Tutor for Scatterplots, using a machine-learned detector of carelessn...
Maria Ofelia Clarissa Z. San Pedro, Ma. Mercedes T...
FLAIRS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
No Peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender
The aim of this paper is threefold: it explores methods for the detection of affective states in text, it presents the usage of such affective cues in a conversational system and ...
Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank, Georgi...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
KI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
ParleE: An Adaptive Plan Based Event Appraisal Model of Emotions
Abstract. We propose ParleE, a quantitative, flexible and adaptive model of emotions for a conversational agent in a multi-agent environment capable of multimodal communication. Pa...
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijho...
WCE
2007
13 years 5 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar
IADIS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A Natural Language Virtual Tutoring System
In this paper we present a natural language virtual tutoring system that has been developed to assist students during the learning process. For this purpose, we have used several ...
Eduardo M. Eisman, Víctor López, Jua...
WEBI
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Effective Conversational Agent with User Modeling Based on Bayesian Network
Abstract. Conversational agents interact with users using natural language interface. Especially in Internet space, their role has been recently highlighted as a virtual representa...
Seung-Ik Lee, Chul Sung, Sung-Bae Cho
IDEAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Two-Stage Bayesian Network for Effective Development of Conversational Agent
Conversational agent is a system that provides user with proper information and maintains the context of dialogue based on natural language. When experts design the network for con...
Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sung-Bae Cho
AUSAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Domain-Adaptive Conversational Agent with Two-Stage Dialogue Management
The conversational agent understands and provides users with proper information based on natural language. Conventional agents based on pattern matching have much restriction to ma...
Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sung-Bae Cho
SAC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Knowledge-based conversational agents and virtual storytelling
Abstract. We describe an architecture for building speech-enabled conversational agents, deployed as self-contained Web services, with ability to provide inference processing on ve...
Paul Tarau, Elizabeth Figa