Practical language processing for virtual humans

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1740-1747

  Leuski, Anton ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; TEXT PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLASSIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LIMITED DOMAINS; SPOKEN DIALOGS; SYSTEM RESPONSE; USER FRIENDLY; VIRTUAL HUMAN SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958556790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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