We present an intelligent embodied conversation agent with
linguistic, social and emotional competence. Unlike the vast majority
of the state-of-the-art conversation agents, the proposed agent is constructed
around an ontology-based knowledge model that allows for
exible
reasoning-driven dialogue planning, instead of using prede ned dialogue
scripts. It is further complemented by multimodal communication
analysis and generation modules and a search engine for the retrieval of
multimedia ...
We present an intelligent embodied conversation agent with
linguistic, social and emotional competence. Unlike the vast majority
of the state-of-the-art conversation agents, the proposed agent is constructed
around an ontology-based knowledge model that allows for
exible
reasoning-driven dialogue planning, instead of using prede ned dialogue
scripts. It is further complemented by multimodal communication
analysis and generation modules and a search engine for the retrieval of
multimedia background content from the web needed for conducting a
conversation on a given topic. The evaluation of the 1st prototype of the
agent shows a high degree of acceptance of the agent by the users with
respect to its trustworthiness, naturalness, etc. The individual technologies
are being further improved in the 2nd prototype.
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