TY - GEN
T1 - Generating dialogues for virtual agents using nested textual coherence relations
AU - Hernault, Hugo
AU - Piwek, Paul
AU - Prendinger, Helmut
AU - Ishizuka, Mitsuru
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper describes recent advances on the Text2Dialogue system we are currently developing. Our system enables automatic transformation of monological text into a dialogue. The dialogue is then "acted out" by virtual agents, using synthetic speech and gestures. In this paper, we focus on the monologue-to-dialogue transformation, and describe how it uses textual coherence relations to map text segments to query-answer pairs between an expert and a layman agent. By creating mapping rules for a few well-selected relations, we can produce coherent dialogues with proper assignment of turns for the speakers in a majority of cases.
AB - This paper describes recent advances on the Text2Dialogue system we are currently developing. Our system enables automatic transformation of monological text into a dialogue. The dialogue is then "acted out" by virtual agents, using synthetic speech and gestures. In this paper, we focus on the monologue-to-dialogue transformation, and describe how it uses textual coherence relations to map text segments to query-answer pairs between an expert and a layman agent. By creating mapping rules for a few well-selected relations, we can produce coherent dialogues with proper assignment of turns for the speakers in a majority of cases.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52149121856
SN - 3540854827
SN - 9783540854821
VL - 5208 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 139
EP - 145
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008
Y2 - 1 September 2008 through 3 September 2008
ER -