From domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2486-2489

  Gandhe, Sudeep ^a   DeVault, David ^a   Roque, Antonio ^a   Martinovski, Bilyana ^a   Artstein, Ron ^a   Leuski, Anton ^a   Gerten, Jillian ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Spoken dialogue systems; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING TOOL; COMPONENT BASED; DIALOGUE ACTS; DIALOGUE MANAGER; EXPLICIT MODELING; FINITE STATE MACHINES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NEW APPROACHES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TRAINING DATA; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

SPECIFICATIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84867226033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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