This paper presents a general architecture towards a more generic approach to conversational agents. Our architecture contains generic (in sense of application independent) natura...
The Restaurant Game demonstrates an end-to-end system that captures and generates social behavior for virtual agents. Over 15,000 people have played The Restaurant Game, and we ha...
In this paper we present an approach to recognition confidence scoring and a set of techniques for integrating confidence scores into the understanding and dialogue components of ...
Timothy J. Hazen, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifro...
Explanation requires a dialogue. Users must be allowed to ask questions about previously given explanations. However, building an interface that allows users to ask follow-up ques...
Automatic detection of communication errors in conversational systems has been explored extensively in the speech community. However, most previous studies have used only acoustic...