What would you ask a conversational agent? Observations of human-agent dialogues in a Museum setting

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1125-1131

  Robinson, Susan ^a   Traum, David ^a   Ittycheriah, Midhun ^a   Henderer, Joe ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HUMAN AGENT; HUMAN USERS; LIMITED DOMAINS; NEW YORK; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84906502586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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