Humoroids - Conversational agents that induce positive emotions with humor

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1090-1091

  Dybala, Pawel ^a   Ptaszynski, Michal ^a   Rzepka, Rafal ^a   Araki, Kenji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conversational agents; Description: experimental; Focus: Agent human interaction; Inspiration: Artificial intelligence; NLP; Other: humor processing

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DESCRIPTION: EXPERIMENTAL; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; NLP; POSITIVE EMOTIONS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84899824881     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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