Rapid development of advanced question-answering characters by non-experts

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 347-349

  Gandhe, Sudeep ^a   Taylor, Alysa ^a   Gerten, Jillian ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING TOOL; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; IN-BUILDINGS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84857719194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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