POLLy: A conversational system that uses a shared representation to generate action and social language

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 967-972

  Gupta, Swati ^a   Walker, Marilyn A ^a   Romano, Daniela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; DIALOGUE GENERATIONS; EMBODIED AGENT; GENERATION PROCESS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; PLANNING REPRESENTATION; SHARED REPRESENTATIONS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 85120158055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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