Defunctionalization is a program transformation that aims to turn a higher-order functional program into a first-order one, that is, to eliminate the use of functions as first-cla...
A major limitation of today's computer games is the shallowness of interactions with non-player characters. To build up relationships with players, NPCs should be able to rem...
This paper introduces a new dialogue management framework for goal-directed conversations. A declarative specification defines the domain-specific elements and guides the dialogue...
Abstract. This paper summarises our work in textual Case-Based Reasoning within jCOLIBRI. We use Information Extraction techniques to annotate web pages to facilitate semantic retr...
Induction and abduction are well known non-deductive inferences. We shall propose that design is also another form of non-deductive inference, and, based on Barwise and Seligmanâ€...