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SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 2 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
CCIA
2009
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Anytime Reasoning Mechanism for Conversational Agents
When an agent receives a query from another agent, it tries to satisfy it by building an answer based on its current knowledge. Depending on the available time or the urgency of t...
M. Mariela Morveli-Espinoza, Josep Puyol-Gruart
HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Some Pitfalls for Developing Enculturated Conversational Agents
A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behavi...
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Yukiko I. N...
WCE
2007
14 years 10 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
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Design and evaluation of expressive gesture synthesis for embodied conversational agents
To increase the believability and life-likeness of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), we introduce a behavior synthesis technique for the generation of expressive gesturing. A...
Björn Hartmann, Maurizio Mancini, Stép...