A common ground for virtual humans: Using an ontology in a natural language oriented virtual human architecture

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3197-3204

  Hartholt, Arno ^a   Russ, Thomas ^a   Traum, David ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a   Robinson, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ONTOLOGY;

COMMON GROUND; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; LOCALIZED ERRORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; STATE OF THE ART; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84926193306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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