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...
Software engineering is by nature a highly collaborative
activity and being able to collaborate effectively is a
key factor for project success. However, collaborating effectivel...
Kevin Dullemond, Ben van Gameren, Rini van Solinge...
Abstract. Words mean different things to different people, and capturing these differences is often a subtle art. These differences are often “a matter of perspective,” and...
Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, Henry Lieberman
In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors synchro...