Improving human-agent conversations by accessing contextual knowledge from Wikipedia

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 428-431

  Breuing, Alexa ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual knowledge; Dialog topic; Embodied conversational agents; Human agent conversation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; DIALOG TOPIC; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HUMAN-AGENT CONVERSATION; WIKIPEDIA;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 78649812918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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