Inferring pragmatics from dialogue contexts in simulated virtual agent games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7471 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-138

  Chien, Alex Yu Hung ^a   Soo, Von Wun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent dialogue; Bayesian networks; Context awareness; Pragmatics; Speech act theory; Virtual games

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MENTAL STATE; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PRAGMATICS; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SPEECH ACT THEORY; SPEECH ACTS; TEST CORPUS; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL GAMES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84865291665     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32326-3_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Ballmer, T., Brennenstuhl, W.: Speech Act Classification. Springer, Heidelberg (1981)
2. Bartneck, C.: Integrating the OCC model of emotions in embodied characters. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Virtual Conversational Characters: Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges, Melbourne (2002)
3. Bentahar, J., Moulin, B., Chaib-draa, B.: A persuasion dialogue game based on commitments and arguments. In: Proc. of the International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (2004)
4. Conati, C.: Probabilistic Assessment of User's Emotions in Educational Games. Applied Artificial Intelligence 16(7-8), 555-575 (2002)
5. Cozman, F.G.: Axiomatizing Noisy-OR. In: 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 979-980. IOS Press, Valencia (2004)
6. Abowd, G.D., Dey, A.K., Brown, P.J., Davies, N., Smith, M., Steggles, P.: Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness. In: Gellersen, H.-W. (ed.) HUC 1999. LNCS, vol. 1707, pp. 304-307. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
7. Finin, T., Fritzson, R., McKay, D., McEntire, R.: KQML as an agent communication language. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 456-463. ACM, Gaithersburg (1994)
8. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification. FIPA00037, http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/
9. Galley, M., Mckeown, K., Hirschberg, J., Shriberg, E.: Identifying agreement and disagreement in conversational speech: use of Bayesian network to model pragmatic dependencies. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, article 669, PA, USA (2004)
10. Grice, P.: Studies in the Way of Words, pp. 22-40. Harvard University Press (1989)
11. Inanoglu, Z., Caneel, R.: Emotive alert: HMM-Based emotion detection in voicemail messages. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 251-253. ACM, San Diego (2005)
12. Kim, S., Georgiou, P.G., Sungbok, L., Narayanan, S.: Real-time emotion detection system using speech: multi-model fusion of different timescale features. In: Proceedings of IEEE 9th Workshop Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Chania, Greece, pp. 48-51 (2007)
13. Murphy, K.P.: Dynamic Bayesian Networks: Representation, Inference and Learning. Ph.D. Thesis, UC Berkley, USA (July 2002)
14. Poesio, M., Traum, D.: Representing conversation acts in unified Semantic/Pragmatic Framework. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines (1997)
15. Pulman, S.G.: Conversation al games, belief revision and Bayesian networks. In: Proceedings of the 7th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting (1996)
16. Russell, S., Norvig, P.: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd edn., pp. 566-599. Prentice Hall (2009)
17. Schilit, B.N., Adams, N., Want, R.: Context-aware computing applications. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Computing System and Applications (1994)
18. Stolcke, A., Ries, K., Coccaro, N., et al.: Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech. Computational Linguistics 26(3), 339-373 (2000)
19. The script of the movie: Doubt, http://www.screenplaydb.com/film/scripts/ doubt/