T2D: Generating dialogues between virtual agents automatically from text

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4722 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-174

  Piwek, Paul ^a   Hernault, Hugo ^b   Prendinger, Helmut ^b   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT PROCESSING;

DIGITAL CONTENTS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; RHETORICAL RELATIONS; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXTUAL INFORMATION; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 37249015033     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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