A Discourse System for Conversational Characters
نویسنده
چکیده
This paper describes a discourse system for conversational characters used for interactive stories. This system is part of an environment that allows learners to practice language skills by interacting with the characters, other learners, and native speakers using instant messaging and email. The dialogues are not purely task oriented and, as a result, are difficult to model using traditional AI planners. On the other hand the dialogues must move the story forward and, thus, systems for the meandering dialogues of chatterbots (for example, AliceBot) are not appropriate. Our approach combines two methods. We use the notion of dialogue game or speech act networks [1][2] to model the local coherence of dialogues. The story moves forward from one dialogue game to another by means of a situated activity planner [3].
منابع مشابه
Conversational Repairs in Persian Dramatic Discourse: Akbar Radi's Pellekân (The Steps)
The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks’s (1977) framework has been adopted and applied to Akbar ...
متن کاملIntroducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conversational and literary narrative*
The term "reported speech" is a misnomer. Examination of the lines of dialogue represented in storytelling or conversation, and consideration of the powers of human memory, indicate that most of those lines were probably not actually spoken. What is commonly referred to as reported speech or direct quotation in conversation is constructed dialogue, just as surely as is the dialogue created by f...
متن کاملOrganization of Gatekeeping and Mental Framework in the System of Representation and Hierarchical Relational Structures of the Modern Society
Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the relationship between language and ideology and explores how such a relationship is represented in the analysis of spoken text and to show how declarative knowledge, beliefs, attit...
متن کاملComedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature
Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...
متن کاملCreating an artificially intelligent director (aid) for theatre and virtual environments
Historically, most virtual character research focuses on realism, interaction with humans, and discourse. The majority of the spatial positioning of characters has focused on oneon-one conversations with humans or placing virtual characters side-by-side when talking. These rely on conversational space as the main driver (if any) for character placement. Robotics is more of a physical representa...
متن کامل