The Swedish NICE corpus - spoken dialogues between children and embodied characters in a computer game scenario

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  • Linda Bell
  • Johan Boye
  • Joakim Gustafson
  • Mattias Heldner
  • Anders Lindström
  • Mats Wirén
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This article describes the collection and analysis of a Swedish database of spontaneous and unconstrained children–machine dialogues. The Swedish NICE corpus consists of spoken dialogues between children aged 8 to 15 and embodied fairytale characters in a computer game scenario. Compared to previously collected corpora of children’s computer-directed speech, the Swedish NICE corpus contains extended interactions, including three-party conversation, in which the young users used spoken dialogue as the primary means of progression in the game.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005