Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Pages | 139-145 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Volume | 5208 LNAI |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008 - Tokyo Duration: 2008 Sep 1 → 2008 Sep 3 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 5208 LNAI |
| ISSN (Print) | 03029743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 16113349 |
Other
| Other | 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008 |
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| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 08/9/1 → 08/9/3 |
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- Theoretical Computer Science
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Generating dialogues for virtual agents using nested textual coherence relations. / Hernault, Hugo; Piwek, Paul; Prendinger, Helmut; Ishizuka, Mitsuru.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 5208 LNAI 2008. p. 139-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5208 LNAI).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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