ERIC: A generic rule-based framework for an affective embodied commentary agent

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 96-103

  Strauss, Martin ^a,b   Kipp, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affect; Commentary agents; Discourse coherence; Embodied characters; Embodied conversational agents; Event recognition; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AFFECT; EMBODIED CHARACTERS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EVENT RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899895426     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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