DEAL - a serious game for CALL practicing conversational skills in the trade domain

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  • Preben Wik
  • Anna Hjalmarsson
  • Jenny Brusk
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This paper describes work in progress on DEAL, a spoken dialogue system under development at KTH. It is intended as a platform for exploring the challenges and potential benefits of combining elements from computer games, dialogue systems and language learning.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007