Politeness and alignment in dialogues with a virtual guide

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 206-213

  De Jong, Markus ^a   Theune, Mariët ^a   Hofs, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alignment; Politeness; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; LINGUISTIC STYLES; POLITENESS; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL GUIDES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84899979404     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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