The virtual guide: a direction giving embodied conversational agent
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چکیده
We present the Virtual Guide, an embodied conversational agent that can give directions in a 3D virtual environment. We discuss how dialogue management, language generation and the generation of appropriate gestures are carried out in our system.
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