T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text

The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents—by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then “acted out” by two 3D agents using synthetic speech and appropriate conversational gestures. In this paper, we

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IVA
• Authors: Paul Piwek, Hugo Hernault, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
• Keywords: Attractive Multi-modal Dialogues, IVA 2007, Rhetorical Discourse Relations, Rhetorical Structure Theory