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[PDF] A Conversational Expert System Supporting Bullying and Harassment Policies
[PDF] from mmu.ac.ukA Latham, K Crockett... - Proceedings of the 2nd ..., 2010 - docm.mmu.ac.uk
... Keywords: Expert system, conversational agent, knowledge engineering, knowledge
tree, bullying, harassment. Abstract: In the UK, several laws and regulations exist to
protect employees from harassment. Organisations operating ... 
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A Robotic Interface to a Medication Review Expert System
[PDF] from utas.edu.auC D'Este, D Reid... - 2008 International Symposium on ..., 2008 - computer.org
... 2.4 Input and Output Figure 1 illustrates the interfaces between patient, robot, conversational
agent and expert system. The robot speaks information to the patient in the form of questions
that might help make new conclusions, and the conclusions themselves. ... 
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Oscar: An Intelligent Adaptive Conversational Agent Tutoring System
A Latham, K Crockett, D McLean... - Agent and Multi-Agent ..., 2011 - Springer
... Heidelberg (2010) [15] Latham, A., Crockett, K., Bandar, Z.: A Conversational Expert System
Supporting Bully- ing and Harassment Policies. In: ICAART 2010, pp. 163-168 (2011) [16] Pudner,
K., Crockett, KA, Bandar, Z.: An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to ... 
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Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System
A Latham, K Crockett, D McLean... - Advances in Web-Based ..., 2010 - Springer
... Springer, Heidelberg (2008) [17] Latham, A., Crockett, K., Bandar, Z.: A Conversational Expert
System Supporting Bullying and Harassment Policies. ... 2004) [26] Latham, AM, Crockett, KA,
McLean, DA, Edmonds, B., O'Shea, K.: Oscar: An Intelligent Conversational Agent Tutor to ... 
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[PDF] An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
[PDF] from psu.eduK Pudner, K Crockett... - Proceedings of the World Congress on ..., 2007 - Citeseer
... C. Expert System Once the conversational agent has captured the attributes present in user input,
it will pass them on to an expert system. ... The expert system will contain • database metadata
describing the current domain • a rule base • an inference engine, which will ... 
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Model and method for using an interactive rational agent, multiagent server and system implementing same
D Sadek, P Bretier... - US Patent 7,376,632, 2008 - Google Patents
... realized by a rational unit that comprises: data including predefined axiom schemes and applica-
tion-dependent axiom schemes, an application-dependent knowledge base including a semantic
network and interconcept distances, an inference engine to implement formal ... 
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Goal Orientated Conversational Agents: Applications to Benefit Society
K Crockett, JO 'Shea... - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: ..., 2011 - Springer
... Pudner, K., Crockett, K., Bandar, Z.: An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting
Queries from Natural Language, World Congress on Engineering. ... Latham, A., Crockett, K., Bandar,
Z.: A Conversational Expert System Supporting Bully- ing And Harassment Policies ... 
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Towards a Context-Based dialog management layer for expert systems
[PDF] from psu.eduV Hung, A Gonzalez... - Information, Process, and ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... In this paper, a context-driven inference engine performs this service, as dictated by the CxBR ...
Such a system can serve as an effective interface layer for an expert system. ... V. Andersen, P. Lops,
and F. Abbattista, "Evaluation and validation of a conversational agent embodied in ... 
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Information Extraction for SQL Query Generation in the Conversation-Based Interfaces to Relational Databases (C-BIRD)
M Owda, Z Bandar... - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: ..., 2011 - Springer
... Introduction to ESTA (Expert System Shell for Text Animation), Prolog Development Center,
Denmark, http://www.visual-prolog.com/vip6/Community/esta/esta.htm 11. Sammut, C.: Managing
Context in a Conversational Agent. Electron. Trans. Artif. Intell. 5, 189-202 (2001) 12. ... 
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Dialog Management for Rapid-Prototyping of Speech-Based Training Agents
[PDF] from ucf.eduVC Hung, AJ Gonzalez... - The Interservice/Industry Training, ..., 2010 - NTSA
... The dialog manager was directly implemented into the LifeLike Avatar, an embodied
conversational agent funded by the ... and depth of the domain-specific knowledge is modeled after
that of a traditional expert system. ... The detection of goals is performed in the inference engine. ... 
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Conversation-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases
[PDF] from psu.eduM Owda, Z Bandar... - Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ ..., 2007 - portal.acm.org
... language interfaces to relational databases, by inventing a much more dynamic knowledge trees
that could be navigated by a goal oriented conversational agent. ... [2] L. Kaetzel, J. Clifton, P. Klieger,
and K. Snyder, "Highway concrete (HWYCON) expert system user reference ... 
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Integrating embodied conversational agent components with a generic framework
[PDF] from fer.hrHH Huang, A Cerekovic, K Tarasenko... - Multiagent and Grid ..., 2008 - IOS Press
... Therefore, an inference engine with a background knowledge base and a dialogue manager
are required for conducting a discourse plan to achieve ... 3. Personalization: talking to a
conversational agent which does not show emotion and facial expres- sions is weird and will ... 
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Models towards a hybrid conversational agent for contact centres
GR Sankar, J Greyling, D Vogts... - Proceedings of the 2008 ..., 2008 - portal.acm.org
Models towards a Hybrid Conversational Agent for Contact ... A RBS consists of a knowledge base
and an inference engine. ... of working memory are described as problem-solving state information
[1]. Figure 1 highlights the basic components of a rule based expert system [5]: 1 ... 
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[CITATION] Models of Domains
C Smith, D Charlton... - 2008
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A semantic Bayesian network approach to retrieving information with intelligent conversational agents
[PDF] from psu.eduKM Kim, JH Hong... - Information processing & management, 2007 - Elsevier
... 3, the proposed conversational agent is composed of two parts: the multi-modal dialogue interface
and the inference modules. ... The inference module is composed of the inference engine and
knowledge management module, where the inference engine analyzes what the user ... 
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Intelligent Advisor Agents in Distributed Environments
A Augello, G Pilato... - Information Retrieval and Mining in ..., 2011 - Springer
... The case of study will regard the creation of a distributed expert system for the government
of a virtual City inspired to SimCity game [19]. ... In [20] Kyoung-Min Kim proposed a conversational
agent that that makes use of semantic Bayesian networks (SeBN). ... 
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[PDF] Important Note
[PDF] from icsoft.orgDA Marca - 2010 - icsoft.org
... Do not copy. Do not distribute. Mental Distance, 30 6. Inference Natural Language ? Inference
Engine ? Concepts An early morning lecture in semantics ... Mental Distance, 31 6. Inference
Product Knowledge ? Inference Engine ? Things An early morning lecture in semantics ... 
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HomeNL: Homecare Assistance in Natural Language. An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Hypertensive Patients Management
[PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frL Rojas-Barahona, S Quaglini... - Artificial Intelligence in ..., 2009 - Springer
... The most sophisticated approaches consider the cognitive state of the conversational agent and
provide methods for modeling intelligent dialogues by ... Moreover, the KR was implemented in
LISP and RACER was used as inference engine [6]. Further processing is carried out ... 
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Managing conversation uncertainty in tutorj
[PDF] from unipa.itV Cannella... - Proc. of the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium in ..., 2009 - aaai.org
... Till now, TutorJ does not use Cyc's inference engine. ... A new framework for a conversational
agent enabled with uncertainty management has been presented in this work as a new
module of TutorJ that is a cognitive architecture for tutoring purposes. ... 
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The triple model: Combining cutting-edge web technologies with a cognitive model in an ECA
[PDF] from imcsit.orgM Grinberg... - Computer Science and Information ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... IV Inference Engine (IE) The RDF-based agent LTM provides the permanent stor- age
of the agent knowledge. ... VCONCLUSION In this paper, the progress in the development
of a new model for an embodied conversational agent is presented. ... 
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A Multimodal Interaction Guide for Pervasive Services Access
A Augello, A Santangelo, S Sorce... - Pervasive Services, ..., 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... This module controls robot which has won three times (2000, 2001, 2004) the annual the
conversational agent, supervising the chatbot dialogue Loebner Prize ... _ - The Cyc inference engine
is the system rea - | 1+; + | allowing to obtain a lot of deductions regarding the KB and it ... 
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Sub-Symbolic Semantic Layer in Cyc for Intuitive Chat-Bots
G Pilato, A Augello, G Vassallo... - ... Computing, 2007. ICSC ..., 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 2.1.2. Cyc Ontology The conversational agent can interact with the OpenCyc ontology
by means of a module which integrates the AIML interpreter and the OpenCyc inference
engine, and which is our Java porting of the CYN project [12]. ... 
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CHARLIE: An AIML-based Chatterbot which Works as an Interface among INES and Humans
[PDF] from uvigo.esFA Mikic, JC Burguillo, M Llamas... - EAEEIE Annual ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... natural language, an intelligent agent based on BDI (Believes, Desires, Intentions) technology
that acts as the brain of the system, an inference engine based on ... A chatterbot is a type of
conversational agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation. ... 
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[BOOK] Active Media Technology: 5th International Conference, AMT 2009, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009, Proceedings
J Liu, J Wu... - 2009 - books.google.com
... Special Session on Conversational Informatics Implementing a Multi-user Tour Guide System
with an Embodied Conversational Agent..... ... Chang, Chih-Yao Lo, and Ping-Chang Chen
Research on Recreational Sports Instruction Using an Expert System... ... 
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Facial expressions in social interactions
S Kaiser... - Animating expressive characters for social ..., 2008 - books.google.com
... FEAT is a connectionist expert system that uses fuzzy rules, acquired from a FACS
expert, to automatically categorize facial expressions. ... References Ball, G., & Breese,
J.(2000). Emotion and Personality in a Conversational Agent. ... 
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[BOOK] Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques ...
R Ellis, T Allen... - 2007 - books.google.com
... Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK), Ian P Davy (Aerospace and Marine International, UK)
CALMsystem: A Conversational Agent for Learner ... Recognition 309 Rentian Huang, H. Tawfik
and AK Nagar (Liverpool Hope University, UK) RSIE: a Inference Engine for Reflexive ... 
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A mobile health and fitness companion demonstrator
O Ståhl, B Gambäck, M Turunen... - Proceedings of the 12th ..., 2009 - portal.acm.org
... Instead of helping with a single, well-defined task, it truly aims to be a Companion to the user,
providing social support in everyday activities. The system should thus be a peer rather than
act as an expert system in health-related issues. ... InCa: A mobile conversational agent. ... 
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[PDF] A Mobile Health and Fitness Companion Demonstrator
[PDF] from psu.eduOSB Gambäck, M Turunen... - Demonstrations Session, 2009 - Citeseer
... Instead of helping with a single, well-defined task, it truly aims to be a Companion to the user,
providing social support in everyday activities. The system should thus be a peer rather than
act as an expert system in health-related issues. ... InCa: A mobile conversational agent. ... 
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The Ballarat incremental knowledge engine
R Dazeley, P Warner, S Johnson... - ... and Acquisition for Smart ..., 2011 - Springer
... Furthermore, the design of the methodology al- lows an expert system under development ... or
embedded in other systems such as in a conversational agent [21] and ... component are the
knowledge representation, plugin manager, expression manager, and the inference engine. ... 
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A multimodal guide for the augmented campus
[PDF] from freakycowbot.comS Sorce, A Augello, A Santangelo... - Proceedings of the ..., 2007 - portal.acm.org
... The use of a conversational agent as a user interface allows users to easily interact with the system,
avoiding ad-hoc styli/touch pens and excluding requirements of uncomfortable interaction [3 ... The
Cyc inference engine allows to obtain a lot of deductions regarding the KB. ... 
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Physically Embodied Conversational Agents as Health and Fitness Companions
[PDF] from uta.fiM Turunen, J Hakulinen, C Smith... - ... Annual Conference of ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
... The system aims to be a peer rather than an expert system in health related issues. ... Since people
build relationships mostly in face-to-face conversations, a physical, multimodal, conversational
agent is a potential platform to build such a relationship [3]. 1.1. ... 
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[PDF] An Investigation into a Natural Language Interface for Contact Centres
[PDF] from nmmu.ac.zaGR Sankar - 2009 - nmmu.ac.za
... 5.3.2.1 Model for a Rule-Based Expert System using a Natural Language
Interface ..... 75 5.4 Model Comparison ..... 78 ... or services. This research
concentrates on a conversational agent known as ALICE. ... 
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[PDF] Emotional eLearning system
[PDF] from th.orgM Neji, MB Ammar - 4th International Conference on eLearning for ..., 2007 - ijcim.th.org
... In addition, the emotions are particularly important for a conversational agent since they reveal
an essential share of the speech through ... The distances considered make it possible to develop
an expert system (for classification) which is compatible with the description MPEG-4 ... 
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Towards interactive training with an avatar-based human-computer interface
[PDF] from psu.eduRF DeMara, AJ Gonzalez, V Hung... - The Interservice/Industry ..., 2008 - NTSA
... This idea was further demonstrated in Kenny et al (2007) with the Sergeant Blackwell
conversational agent. ... This is similar to the inference engine found in CxBR systems, where
conditioned predicate logic rules determine the active context according to the environmental ... 
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Talking NPCs in a virtual game world
[PDF] from aclweb.orgT Klüwer, P Adolphs, F Xu... - Proceedings of the ACL ..., 2010 - portal.acm.org
... KomParse Server Twinity Client Conversational Agent Conversational Agent Conversational
Agent ... It provides a forward- chaining inference engine which evaluates the domain definitions
when loading the knowledge repository, and makes implicit knowledge explicit by ... 
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[PDF] Collaborating with Neural Network-based Artificial Intelligence Agents
[PDF] from psu.eduE Byrne, D Diaper, D Bournemouth... - 2009 - Citeseer
... It is proposed that CABot4 will be a conversational agent. ... 7. D. Diaper. Identifying the knowledge
requirements of an expert system's natural language processing interface. In M. Harrison and
A. Monk, editors, People and Computers: Designing for Usability, pages 263-280. ... 
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An Intelligent Advisor to Suggest Strategies in Economic Policy Decisions
A Augello, G Pilato... - 2010 International Conference on ..., 2010 - computer.org
... interface. The linguistic area includes a dialogue module implemented with a
conversational agent based on the ALICE technology [15]. ... scenario. We focus on
the creation of an expert system for the governance of a virtual City. ... 
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MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM
MG Makar, JM Mosley, TA Tindall... - US Patent App. ..., 2008 - freepatentsonline.com
... A chatbot (or chatterbot) is a type of conversational agent designed to initiate conversation with
humans in auditory or ... 22, 2004 entitled AUTOMATIC CREATION OF NEURO-FUZZY EXPERT
SYSTEM FROM ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (OLAP) TOOLS" the teachings ... 
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A virtual shopper customer assistant in pervasive environments
[PDF] from uni-ulm.deA Santangelo, A Augello, S Sorce... - Proceedings of the ..., 2007 - portal.acm.org
... The Cyc inference engine is the system reasoning core by which it is possible to obtain deductions
regarding the KB described using the ... The conversational agent queries the ontology in order
to find a match between the term expressed in natural language and a Cyc constant ... 
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Embodiment and expressive communication on the internet
E Oberzaucher, K Grammer... - Face-to-Face ..., 2011 - books.google.com
... Feedback in conversational agents Almost every existing conversational agent system involves,
implicitly or explicitly, aspects of communicative feedback by presenting emo ... At this point, any
control architecture needs some expert system to decide which emotion should occur. ... 
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Unsupervised modeling of twitter conversations
[PDF] from psu.eduA Ritter, C Cherry... - ... : The 2010 Annual Conference of the ..., 2010 - portal.acm.org
... Therefore we adopt Gibbs sam- pling as our inference engine. ... Ideally we would evaluate
performance using an end-use application such as a conversational agent; however as this is
outside the scope of this paper, we leave such an evaluation to future work. ... 
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[PDF] Toward ontologies and services for assisting industrial robot setup and instruction
[PDF] from psu.eduM Haage, A Nilsson... - ... and Robotics: Selected Papers from the ..., 2008 - Citeseer
... As inference engine, we are using the built-in bridge that is for now only coupled to Jess. ... The
MIT Press. Bersot, O., Guedj, P.-OE, Godéreaux, C., and Nugues, P. (1998). A conversational
agent to help navigation and collaboration in virtual worlds. Virtual Reality, 3(1):71-82. ... 
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Progressive Reasoning for Complex Dialogues among Agents
J Puyol-Gruart... - Information Processing and ..., 2010 - Springer
... 3.2 Specialization and Quality The main goal of the inference engine is to find the more precise
values for the facts. ... International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) 18(1/2), 107-130
(1998) 7. Rago, F.: Conversational agent model in intelligent user interface. ... 
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[PDF] Empirical Methods in Discourse: Limits and Prospects
[PDF] from pitt.eduRH Thomason... - 2007 - pitt.edu
... It would be a mismatch, for instance, to use an ordinary expert system for generation and a
Bayesian network for interpretation, since only ... have selected a different model, inspired by work
of Stalnaker' s,6and will split the beliefs maintained by each conversational agent into two ... 
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Cultural Specific Effects on the Recognition of Basic Emotions: A Study on Italian Subjects
A Esposito, M Riviello... - HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion, 2009 - Springer
... research themes related to speech synthesis, as well as automatic speech recognition, interactive
dia- logues systems, wearable computing, embodied conversational agent systems, and ... Pantic,
M., Rothkrantz, JM: Expert system for automatic analysis of facial expression. ... 
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Conversational Knowledge Circulation
T Nishida - ... Research for Development of Knowledge Society ..., 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... of SPOC were further extended in IPOC [9]. IPOC permits the user to interact with the embodied
conversational agent (the IPOC ... in the communication between a standardized set of ECA
components such as sensor inputs from the human users, inference engine, emotion model ... 
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Model-based application development for massively parallel embedded systems
[PDF] from utwente.nlJWM Jacobs - 2008 - eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl
Page 1. Model-based Application Development for Massively Parallel Embedded Systems Jan
WM Jacobs Page 2. Members of the dissertation committee: prof. dr. ir. GJM Smit University of
Twente (promoter) dr. ir. J. Kuper University of Twente (assistent-promoter) prof. dr. ir. Th. ... 
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Sub-symbolic Mapping of Cyc Microtheories in Data-Driven "Conceptual" Spaces
G Pilato, A Augello, M Scriminaci, G Vassallo... - Knowledge-Based ..., 2007 - Springer
... The Cyc KB, at present, is the largest and most complete general knowledge base, equipped
with a good performing inference engine. ... 1. Agostaro, F., Augello, A., Pilato, G., Vassallo, G., Gaglio,
S.: A Conversational Agent Based on a Conceptual Interpretation of a Data Driven ... 
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Natural speaking (interfaces for cars
V Nicokscu, JM Leimeister... - Automotive Services 2010, 2010 - books.google.com
... Thus, an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA)(Cassell 2000) uses social inte- raction to
build up a trusting relationship with the user. ... Diaper D, Shelton T (1989) Dialogues with the
Tin Man: A Natural Language Grammar for Expert System Naive Users. ... 
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Scripting Human-Agent Interactions in a Generic ECA Framework
HH Huang, A Cerekovic, IS Pandzic... - ... and Innovations in ..., 2008 - Springer
... The Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) Framework has three parts, the integration
backbone GECA Platform, communication ... to be considered in the deliberate process of an ECA:
natural language understanding, inference engine, knowledge representation ... 
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Agent-based collaborative affective e-learning system
M Ben Ammar, AM Alimi, M Neji... - Proceedings of the First ..., 2007 - portal.acm.org
... In addition, the emotions are particularly important for a conversational agent since they reveal
an essential share of the speech through ... The distances considered make it possible to develop
an expert system (for classification) which is compatible with the description MPEG-4 ... 
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Entrainment and musicality in the human system interface
SP Gill - AI & Society, 2007 - Springer
... Expert knowledge and the expert system The research on the tacit dimension of knowledge begins
with the concept of the expert or expertise and the limitations of representing human skill in
propositional forms. ... And I began with the example of the expert system. ... 
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Bridging the Gap to Natural Language: A Review on Intelligent Tutoring Systems based on Latent Semantic Analysis
[PDF] from opus-bayern.deW Lenhard - 2008 - opus-bayern.de
... In classical ITS, it is an expert system that incorporates the behavioural repertoire to solve the
tasks in the same way as students do it. ... The tutoring process is guided by an animated
conversational agent, who engages students in natural language dialogs. ... 
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[PDF] Bullying and debt: developing novel applications of dialogue systems
[PDF] from usc.eduK Crockett, Z Bandar, JO'Shea... - 6th IJCAI Workshop on ..., 2009 - people.ict.usc.edu
... Acknowledgment The authors wish to thank Convagent Ltd for the use of their conversational
agent engine for use within this research. ... Accessed: March 7, 2009 Latham, A. An Expert System
for a Bullying and Harassment Policy, MSC thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University ... 
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[PDF] Toward a culture adaptive conversational agent with a modularized approach
[PDF] from kyoto-u.ac.jpH Huang, T Nishida, A Cerekovic... - ... Interfaces, held in ..., 2008 - ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
... The Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) Frame- work is being developed by us
to address this problem. ... user, many factors need to be considered in the de- liberate process
of an ECA: natural language understanding, inference engine, knowledge representation ... 
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Dynamic models of multiple emotion activation
V Carofiglio, F de Rosis... - ... expressive characters for ..., 2008 - books.google.com
... in another paper, in which we dis- cussed the advantages it offers in driving the affective behaviour
of an Embodied Conversational Agent that we ... The alternative is to employ some variant of the
'expert system approach', by asking experts to estimate parameters subjec- tively. ... 
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The Affective Tutoring System
M Ben Ammar, M Neji, A Alimi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2010 - Elsevier
... Emotional concept ontology 4. The proposed framework 4.1. Emotional embodied conversational
agent 4.2. The emotional agents 4.2.1. Facial expression feature extraction 4.2.2. Facial
expression classification 4.3. ... 4.1. Emotional embodied conversational agent. ... 
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ISMAEL: Un agente BDI como cerebro de una plataforma de tele-educación
[PDF] from 161.67.140.29FA Mikic Fonte, JC Burguillo Rial... - Informatica Educativa ..., 2010 - 161.67.140.29
... To achieve these functionalities our system includes several tools and technologies, such as:
semantic management of users and contents, a conversational agent to communicate with
students in natural ... Friedman-Hill 00] EJ Friedman-Hill, "Jess, The Java Expert System Shell". ... 
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[PDF] Integrating user affective state assessment in enhancing hci: Review and proposition
[PDF] from benthamscience.comX Li - The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, 2008 - benthamscience.com
... Scherer [45] designed an emotional analyst expert system, GENESE, based on the
component process appraisal model [46]. The knowledge base consists of 14 vectors
for 14 emo- tions, with quantified predictors for typical stimulus checks. ... 
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A multi-expert model for dialogue and behavior control of conversational robots and agents
M Nakano, Y Hasegawa, K Funakoshi... - Knowledge-Based ..., 2010 - Elsevier
... Key words: conversational robot, conversational agent, robot intelligence, behavior and dialogue
control, multi-expert model 1 Introduction As much attention is ... [7] [8] B. Lin, H. Wang, L. Lee,
Consistent dialogue across concurrent topics based on an expert system model, in ... 
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Web-based Bayesian intelligent tutoring systems
C Butz, S Hua... - Evolution of the Web in Artificial Intelligence ..., 2008 - Springer
... In particular, we discuss how to employ Bayesian networks as an inference engine to guide the
students' learning R. Nayak et al. ... In [36], a conversational agent was implemented that utilizes
the user model con- structed on Bayesian network by considering the users' goal. ... 
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From observation to simulation: generating culture-specific behavior for interactive systems
[PDF] from psu.eduM Rehm, Y Nakano, E André, T Nishida, N Bee... - AI & Society, 2009 - Springer
... of different reasons. Often data on human interaction is lacking information necessary
for developing a model to control the behavior of a conversational agent (eg, about
the synchronization of different modalities). To keep the ... 
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[PDF] Agent-based Collaborative Affective e-learning framework
[PDF] from psu.eduM Neji... - The Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007 - Citeseer
... ISSN 1479-4403 129 Figure 2: The emotional embodied conversational agent (EECA) Architecture ...
The distances considered make it possible to develop an expert system (for classification), which
is compatible with the description MPEG-4 of the six universal emotions. ... 
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Learning and generalising semantic knowledge from object scenes
[PDF] from utas.edu.auC D'Este... - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
... recognition systems may also be used. The speech recognition system sends
sequences of words to a conversational agent, called ProBot [10]. A conversational
agent consists of sets of pattern matching rules. If a pattern of words ... 
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[PDF] Adaptive mediation in groupware
[PDF] from brandeis.eduJE Introne - 2008 - pages.cs.brandeis.edu
... For example, whenever I type "Dear" at the beginning of a document, a conversational agent
could leap into action and ask me if I'd like to write a letter. ... I will offer direct support for the utility
of the structured information via an analysis of the inference engine's performance with ... 
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Toward Socially Intelligent Interviewing Systems
NK Person, S D'Mello... - Envisioning the survey ..., 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... The AutoTutor interface includes an animated conversational agent that speaks
the content of AutoTutor's turns and displays simple facial expressions and
rudimentary gestures. Students type their answers on the keyboard. ... 
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Controlling the emotional state of an embodied conversational agent with a dynamic probabilistic fuzzy rules based system
EM Eisman, V López... - Expert Systems with Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
... In general, the emotional state of any conversational agent, independently of the application
domain, will depend on the following variables: • P ... base (which contains the database with the
linguistic variables and labels, and the rule base), the inference engine (which estimates ... 
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Design Principles for Special Purpose, Embodied, Conversational Intelligence with Environmental Sensors (SPECIES) Agents
DC Derrick, JL Jenkins... - AIS Transactions on ..., 2011 - aisel.aisnet.org
... If an embodied agent is intended to interact with people through natural speech,
it is often referred to as an Embodied Conversational Agent, or ECA (Patton, 2009). ...
Figure 11: Embodied Conversational Agent Used Experiment ... 
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Affect in Multimodal Information
A Esposito - Affective Information Processing, 2009 - Springer
... the last few years, in the context of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field which involves
research themes related to speech synthesis, as well as automatic speech recognition, inter-
active dialogue systems, wearable computers, embodied conversational agent sys- tems ... 
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[PDF] Semantics for Virtual Humans
[PDF] from epfl.chAGR MARTINE - 2009 - biblion.epfl.ch
Page 1. POUR L'OBTENTION DU GRADE DE DOCTEUR ÈS SCIENCES PAR acceptée sur
proposition du jury: Prof. A. Schiper, président du jury Prof. D. Thalmann, directeur de thèse Dr
L. Papaleo, rapporteur Prof. C. Pelachaud, rapporteur Prof. S. Spaccapietra, rapporteur ... 
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Multimodal and mobile conversational Health and Fitness Companions
M Turunen, J Hakulinen, O Ståhl, B Gambäck... - Computer Speech & ..., 2011 - Elsevier
... server. The difference between the Health and Fitness Companion and most of the
existing health-related systems is that our Companion prototype aims to be a peer
rather than an expert system in health-related issues. The ... 
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Social intelligence design and human computing
T Nishida - Artifical [ie artificial] intelligence for human ..., 2007 - books.google.com
... A specification of a high-level protocol (GECAML) based on XML messages that are used in the
communication between a standardized set of ECA components such as sensor inputs from the
human users, inference engine, emotion model, personality model, dialogue ... 
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Why emotions should be integrated into conversational agents
[PDF] from uni-bielefeld.deC Becker, S Kopp... - Conversational Informatics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... Despite the similarities of the dialogue-based interfaces, Weizenbaum did not intend to build
an expert system in the domain of psychotherapy. ... 3.3 we discuss motives for the inclu- sion of
emotions and we relate them to our own work on the multimodal conversational agent Max ... 
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Evaluating information presentation strategies for spoken dialogue systems
[PDF] from ed.ac.ukA Winterboer - 2009 - era.lib.ed.ac.uk
... from the language generator into spoken language. An SDS typically provides access to a
computer-based application such as a database or an expert system. ... Demberg and Moore, 2006).
for tutorial and expert systems allowing users to converse with an expert system in ... 
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Characteristic factors and components of different modules in expert systems for intelligent tutoring system
K Mishra... - International Journal of Advanced Intelligence ..., 2011 - Inderscience
... modules. Keywords: expert system; ES; tutoring; components; cognitive; learning. ... Kerly
et al. (2008) described in their paper conversational agent for learner modelling system
(CALMsystem) a negotiated learner model. CALMsystem ... 
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Affect detection: An interdisciplinary review of models, methods, and their applications
RA Calvo... - IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2010 - computer.org
... For example, Klaus Scherer [6] imple- mented a computational model of emotion as an expert
system. ... tems that express what a human would perceive as an emotion (eg, an avatar, robot,
animated conversational agent), and (c) systems that actually 'feel' an emotion. ... 
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[PDF] Anytime Reasoning Mechanism for Conversational Agents
[PDF] from csic.esM Morveli-Espinoza... - Proceeding of the 2009 ..., 2009 - iiia.csic.es
... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, pages 101-122, 2000. [7] J. Puyol,
L. Godo, and C. Sierra. A specialisation calculus to improve expert system communica- tion. ...
[10] F Rago. Conversational agent model in intelligent user interface. ... 
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Natural language processing: a prolog perspective
C Bitter, DA Elizondo... - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2010 - Springer
... to each other. The set of all logical consequences derivable from a program constitutes
the meaning of the program. The meaning of the program is computed by Prolog's
inference engine at run-time. Pereira and Shieber mention ... 
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Knowledge as embodied performance
SP Gill - Cognition, Communication and Interaction, 2008 - Springer
... Cassell [http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/Justine/jc_research.htm] describes her Embod- ied
Conversational Agent (ECA), as "a virtual human capable of ... of representation is similar to the
problem faced by the bottleneck of 'implicit' or 'tacit' knowledge for the expert system. ... 
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Intelligent Support for. Building Knowledge Bases. for Natural Language. Processing
BK Bases - Intelligent assistant systems: concepts, techniques, ..., 2007 - books.google.com
... This approach resulted in the expert system PEIRS used for interpreting chemical
pathology results (Edwards, Compton, Malor, Srinivasan, & Lazarus, 1993). PEIRS
appears to have been the most comprehensive medical expert ... 
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Corroborating Emotion Theory with Role Theory and Agent Technology: a Framework for Designing Emotional Agents as Motivational Tutoring Entities
[PDF] from uni-duisburg-essen.deBF Marin - 2008 - duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de
... DBN Dynamic Belief Network DLE Distance Learning Environment ER Entity Relationship
ECA Embodied Conversational Agent FCM Fuzzy Cognitive Map FIPA Foundation for
Intelligent Physical Agents FSA Finite State Automat GA Global Agent ... 
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Reformulation of the theory of conceptual spaces
JT Rickard, J Aisbett... - Information Sciences, 2007 - Elsevier
... This is analogous to developing concepts to describe stimuli in a psychological experiment, such
as "green squares" or "red circles", or to writing a (potentially complex) rule in an expert system
that associates an object possessing the relevant properties (ie, satisfying the ... 
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[PDF] Een vitaliteitscoach voor het Voedingscentrum: Statisch of dynamisch?
[PDF] from utwente.nlN Nijland... - ... van een internetinterventie gericht op een ..., 2007 - utwente.nl
Page 1. Een vitaliteitscoach voor het Voedingscentrum: Statisch of dynamisch? Een
inventariserend onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden en randvoorwaarden voor het
ontwikkelen van een internetinterventie gericht op een gezond leefpatroon ... 
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Integrating Knowledge-base Web Design System with Accessibility Tool for Elder on Web Interface Design
[PDF] from yuntech.edu.twHM Hong - 2008 - ethesys.yuntech.edu.tw
Page 1. ???????? ?????????? ???? ????????????????
???????????? Integrating Knowledge-base Web Design System with Accessibility
Tool for Elder on Web Interface Design ? ? ?:??? ????:??? ??? ... 
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Convivial Ambient Technologies: Requirements, Ontology and Design
[PDF] from uni.luP Caire... - The Computer Journal, 2010 - Br Computer Soc
Page 1. (c) The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British
Computer Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@
oxfordjournals.org Advance Access publication on March 17, 2009 doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxp012 ... 
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[BOOK] Cognition, communication and interaction: transdisciplinary perspectives on interactive technology
SP Gill - 2007 - books.google.com
Page 1. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SERIES Satinder P.Gill (Ed) Cognition,
Communication and Interaction Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Interactive
Technology Springer Page 2. Human-Computer Interaction Series ... 
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[PDF] Contextualizing observational data for modeling human performance
[PDF] from fcla.eduV Trinh - 2009 - etd.fcla.edu
Page 1. CONTEXTUALIZING OBSERVATIONAL DATA FOR MODELING HUMAN
PERFORMANCE by VIET TRINH BSCp.E. University of Central Florida, 2002
MSCp.E. University of Central Florida, 2004 A dissertation submitted ... 
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Experience-driven procedural content generation
GN Yannakakis... - IEEE Transactions on Affective ..., 2011 - computer.org
... This includes parameters from the player's behavior derived from responses to system
elements (ie non-player characters, game levels or embodied conversational agent
behavior). 8. http://wii.com/ 9. http://www.xbox.com/kinect/ ... 
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[PDF] MediaHub: Bayesian Decision-making in an Intelligent Multimodal Distributed Platform Hub
[PDF] from ulst.ac.ukGG Campbell - 2009 - infm.ulst.ac.uk
... SmartKom deploys a combination of speech, gestures and facial expressions to facilitate a
more natural form of human-computer interaction, allowing face-to- face interaction with its
conversational agent, Smartakus. Interact (Jokinen et al. 2002) aids the ... 
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[BOOK] WASABI: Affect simulation for agents with believable interactivity
[PDF] from becker-asano.deC Becker-Asano - 2008 - books.google.com
... same as Figure 3.6) 102 5.2 MAX is getting angry and leaves 103 5.3 A dialogue example from
the conversational agent scenario 105 ... Despite the similarities of the dialog-based interfaces,
Weizenbaum did not intend to build an expert system in the domain of psychotherapy. ... 
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[BOOK] Constructive dialogue modelling: speech interaction and rational agents
K Jokinen - 2009 - books.google.com
Page 1. 1ER1ES IN AGENT TCCIINObOOY | LEY Constructive alogue Modelling teech
interaction and rational agents Page 2. CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE MODELLING
SPEECH INTERACTION AND RATIONAL AGENTS Kristiina ... 
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[PDF] Flexible Turn-Taking for Spoken Dialog Systems
[PDF] from psu.eduA Raux - 2008 - Citeseer
... Perrault [1980]. The DM also exploits knowledge about the domain and task at hand,
which are usually provided by some back end module such as a database or an expert
system. 1.3.5 Natural Language Generation The natural ... 
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Promoting extension and reuse in a spoken dialog manager: An evaluation of the queen's communicator
P Hanna, I O'neill, C Wootton... - ACM Transactions on ..., 2007 - portal.acm.org
... The output from the dialog server is sent to the client and consists of the generated textual re-
sponse from the dialog manager and associated APML mark-up to be used to determine how
the utterance will be spoken and expressed by the embodied conversational agent (ECA). ... 
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