NPCEditor: Creating virtual human dialogue using information retrieval techniques

AI Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 42-56

  Leuski, Anton ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; LIMITED DOMAINS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEM RESPONSE; TEXT INPUT; USER FRIENDLY; VIRTUAL HUMAN SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80051618137     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v32i2.2347     Document Type: Article

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