A Multi-modal Eliza Using Natural Language Processing and Emotion Recognition

In the human machine interaction domain adaptive life-like agents are becoming a popular interface. In order to provide a natural conversation such agents should be able to display emotion and to recognize the user’s emotions. This paper describes a computer model for amulti-modal communication system based on the famous Eliza question-answering system. A human user can communicate with the developed system using typed natural language. The system will reply with text-prompts and appropriate facial-expressions.