An embodied conversational agent for counselling aborigines

ICSOFT 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 371-376

  Warnanggal, Mr ^a   Kavakli, Manolya ^a   Rudra, Tarashankar ^a   Li, Manning ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Expert system; Natural language processing; Virtual sociologist

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELLING; AUSTRALIA; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SUBSTANCE USE; VIRTUAL SOCIOLOGIST;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CRIME; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 80052604434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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