In affective dialog simulation, recognition and interpretation of the affective state of the user should be integrated with display of empathy by the system and with dialog plannin...
In this paper, we propose a new framework for the computational learning of formal grammars with positive data. In this model, both syntactic and semantic information are taken int...
Many knowledge acquisition approaches have been proposed to minimize the cognitive effort in knowledgebased system construction. The knowledge acquisition approach proposed here p...
In this paper, we survey different types of Models of culture for virtual humans. Virtual humans are artificial agents that include both a visual human-like body and intelligent co...
Many kinds of creativity result from combination of mental representations. This paper provides a computational account of how creative thinking can arise from combining neural pa...