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...
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...
This paper presents a general architecture towards a more generic approach to conversational agents. Our architecture contains generic (in sense of application independent) natura...
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...
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...