JUDICIAL SPEECH: AN EXPLICATIVE NARRATIVE OR A HIDDEN DIALOGUE?

Persuasive Dialogue Based on a Narrative Theory: An ECA Implementation

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) are poised to constitute a specific category within persuasive systems, in particular through their ability to support affective dialogue. One possible approach consists in using ECA as virtual coaches or personal assistants and to make persuasion part of a dialogue game implementing specific argumentation or negotiation features. In this paper, we explore a...

Consent--an event or a memory? A judicial view.

Explicative Document Reading Controlled by Non-speech Audio Gestures

There are many situations in which listening to a text produced by a textto-speech system is easier or safer than reading, for example when driving a car. Technical documents, such as conference articles, manuals etc., usually are comprised of relatively plain and unequivocal sentences. These documents usually contain words and terms unknown to the listener because they are full of domain speci...

Topic Detection of an Speech Dialogue P

This paper proposes a method for topic detection of an utterance for speech dialogue processing including speech translation. There are three important points to consider in realizing topic detection of an utterance. The first is to obtain information from a short utterance. The second is to deal with a broad topic. The third is to have robustness against speech recognition errors. Our topic de...

Toward Recombinant Dialogue in Interactive Narrative

Prom Week is a social-simulation videogame driven by the artificial intelligence engine Comme il Faut (CiF). In each level of the game, the player selects social interactions between characters in an effort to achieve socially oriented goals. These social interactions are enacted with hand-authored natural-language dialogue exchanges, called instantiations, which also serve to render the underl...