Handling out of domain topics by a conversational character

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 273-280

  Mehta, Manish ^a   Corradini, Andrea ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Multimodal conversational systems; Out of domain topics; QA systems; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPLETE SYSTEMS; DIALOG ACTS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; MULTIMODAL CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; NON-VERBAL BEHAVIORS; OUT-OF-DOMAIN TOPICS; QA SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 62849103364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1413634.1413686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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