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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
We describe an approach to improving the naturalness of a social dialogue system, Talkie, by adding disfluencies and other content-independent enhancements to synthesized conversa...
Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan W. Black,...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Generic Natural Language Command Interpretation in Ontology-Based Dialogue Systems
This paper presents a general architecture towards a more generic approach to conversational agents. Our architecture contains generic (in sense of application independent) natura...
Laurent Mazuel, Nicolas Sabouret
LREC
2010
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14 years 10 days ago
MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse
In this paper, we describe our experience with collecting and creating an annotated corpus of multi-party online conversations in a chat-room environment. This effort is part of a...
Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell...
ANLP
2000
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14 years 7 days ago
Translation using Information on Dialogue Participants
This paper proposes a way to improve the translation quality by using information on dialogue participants that is easily obtained from outside the translation component. We incor...
Setsuo Yamada, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka