Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World

This paper describes the KomParse system, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity. In order to fulfill the various communication demands between nonplayer characters (NPCs) and users in such an online virtual world, the system realizes a flexible and hybrid approach combining knowledge-intensive domainspecific question answering, task-specific and domain-specific dialog with robust chatbot-like chitchat.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Tina Klüwer, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Xiwen Cheng
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Computational Linguistics, Robust Chatbot-like Chitchat, Three-dimensional Virtual World, Virtual World