Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state...
Automatically detecting human social intentions from spoken conversation is an important task for dialogue understanding. Since the social intentions of the speaker may differ fro...
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the deve...
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
In human-human conversation, people use linguistic expressions that are flexibly tailored to context as a matter of course, and they expect their conversational partners to do lik...