TY - GEN
T1 - T2D
T2 - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007
AU - Piwek, Paul
AU - Hernault, Hugo
AU - Prendinger, Helmut
AU - Ishizuka, Mitsuru
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents-by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then "acted out" by two 3D agents using synthetic speech and appropriate conversational gestures. In this paper, we present version 1.0 of the T2D system and focus on the novel technique that it uses for mapping rhetorical relations to question-answer pairs, thus transforming (monological) text into a form that supports dialogues between virtual agents.
AB - The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents-by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then "acted out" by two 3D agents using synthetic speech and appropriate conversational gestures. In this paper, we present version 1.0 of the T2D system and focus on the novel technique that it uses for mapping rhetorical relations to question-answer pairs, thus transforming (monological) text into a form that supports dialogues between virtual agents.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37249015033
SN - 9783540749967
VL - 4722 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 161
EP - 174
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Y2 - 17 September 2007 through 19 September 2007
ER -