Language-driven nonverbal communication in a bilingual conversational agent

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 17-22

  King, S A ^a   Knott, A ^a   McCane, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animation; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Computer science; Machine vision; Magnetic heads; Man machine systems; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Tellurium

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER VISION; DATA MINING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAGNETIC HEADS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANIMATED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; VERBAL INTERACTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84943398311     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASA.2003.1199299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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