Virtual Human Toolkit


VHT Hub (Hub Application Program Interface - Java) | BLT-CU Speech Recognizer | Phoenix Semantic Parser (Phoenix Semantic Frame Parser) | Phoenix Dialog Manager (Olympus incorporates the Ravenclaw dialog manager) | Flash Application | Speech Synthesizer | CUAnimate 3D avatar

University of Colorado, Boulder: CLEAR - Computational Language & EducAtion Research (formerly known as: CSLR - Center for Spoken Language Research)

See also: NPCEditor



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W Ward, R Cole, D Bolaños… - ACM Transactions on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Page 1. 18 My Science Tutor: A Conversational Multimedia Virtual Tutor for Elementary
School Science WAYNE WARD, RONALD COLE, DANIEL BOLA ˜NOS, CINDY
BUCHENROTH-MARTIN, and EDWARD SVIRSKY, Boulder ...
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[PDF] Phase I Final Report NIH Grant# 1 R43 DC009926-01 An Accessible, Effective Treatment for Sentence Deficit in Agrammatic Aphasia
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RAC PI - 2010 - bltek.com
... Work conducted under these projects has led to the development of a new platform-independent
software architecture, the BLT Virtual Human Toolkit BLT VHT), which supports real
conversational interaction with a virtual tutor or clinician from PCs or MACs. ...
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[PDF] Embodied Conversational Agent Avatars in Virtual Worlds: Making Today's Immersive Environments More
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JF Morie, E Chance, K Haynes… - projects.ict.usc.edu
... Author- ing a conversational agent with full embodiment and a knowledge base is not a simple
task: there is no Virtual Human Toolkit available to help one through the process (although
this is an active area of research at the ICT). This effort Page 21. 21 ...
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[PDF] Collaborative Research: Improving Science Learning in Inquiry-based Programs
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W Ward… - bltek.com
Page 1. Proposal Submitted to the National Science Foundation entitled: Collaborative
Research: Improving Science Learning in Inquiry-based Programs Wayne Ward (Principal
Investigator), Ron Cole (Co-Principal Investigator) Project Summary ...
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Evaluating conversational characters created through question generation
G Chen, E Tosch, R Artstein, A Leuski… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - aaai.org
... We use a pub- licly available toolkit for creating virtual characters – the ICT Virtual
Human Toolkit (http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu) – with a knowledge base in the form of
linked question-answer pairs (Leuski and Traum 2010). Instead ...
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The BML Sequencer: A Tool for Authoring Multi-character Animations
P Aggarwal… - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
... The tool can also be used during run-time of the system, retrieving a BML schedule when
presented with an FML behavior request for a specific utterance, using the same protocol as
NVBG in the virtual human toolkit.1 1 http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu/index.php/ ...
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Augmenting Conversational Characters with Generated Question-Answer Pairs
E Nouri, R Artstein, A Leuski… - 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium …, 2011 - aaai.org
... for conversational characters which is available for down- load as part of the ICT Virtual Human
Toolkit.1 NPCEd- itor is trained on a knowledge base in the form of linked question-answer pairs,
and is able to ... 1http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu 2http://code.google.com/p/openaryhpe ...
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Virtual Humans with Secrets: Learning to Detect Verbal Cues to Deception
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H Lane, M Schneider, S Michael… - Intelligent Tutoring …, 2010 - Springer
... For other aspects (ie, animation, speech generation, nonverbal behaviors) we leveraged the
Virtual Human Toolkit.1 The domain editor requires an author to create 1 http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.
edu/ Page 4. Virtual Humans with Secrets: Learning to Detect Verbal Cues to Deception ...
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[CITATION] Virtual Humans with Secrets: Virtual Training for Detecting Verbal Cues to Deception
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Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models
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WY Wang, R Artstein, A Leuski… - Proceedings of the Twenty- …, 2011 - aaai.org
... Human Toolkit.1 We summarize this work briefly here in order to describe how we modified it
to accommodate phonetic information. NPCEditor employs a statistical language modeling ap-
proach called relevance models (Lavrenko, Choquette, and 1http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu ...
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Practical language processing for virtual humans
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A Leuski… - Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative …, 2010 - aaai.org
... NPCEditor is now part of a Virtual Human Toolkit that is a collection of modules,
tools and libraries that allow developers to create their own virtual humans. ...
5http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu/ 6http://www.mos.org/interfaces/ 1746 </
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[PDF] NPCEditor: A tool for building question-answering characters
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A Leuski… - Proceedings of The 7th International Conference …, 2010 - ict.usc.edu
... Generally the input comes in a form of a text string from an automatic speech recognition engine,
but this input can come from an instance messaging or an email server. Also, 3See
http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu/index.php/ for details. Character Character Classifier ...
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[PDF] Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts
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S Gandhe, A Taylor, J Gerten… - Proceedings of the SIGDIAL …, 2011 - aclweb.org
... Talking to virtual humans: Dia- logue models and methodologies for embodied con- versational
agents. In Ipke Wachsmuth and Günther Knoblich, editors, Modeling Communication with Robots
and Virtual Humans, pages 296–309. Springer. 3http://vhtoolkit.ict.usc.edu/ 349
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The SEMAINE API: a component integration framework for a naturally interacting and emotionally competent embodied conversational agent
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M Schröder - 2011 - scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de
Page 1. The SEMAINE API — A Component Integration Framework for a Naturally
Interacting and Emotionally Competent Embodied Conversational Agent Dissertation
zur Erlangung des Grades des Doktors der Ingenieurwissenschaften ...
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