In this study, we present a computational approach to support content creation by recording and reusing the conversational contents as reusable nuggets. We introduce the concept of the conversation quantization a technique for approximating a continuous flow of conversation by a series of conversation quanta that correspond to the points in a discourse. We describe the creation of contents usin...

Utilizing conversation policies, also called as interaction protocols, is one of the various efforts that have been devoted to the improvement of agent interoperability. The research on conversation policies so far has focused on developing conversation policy models and standard conversation policies. However, in a dynamic agent society where new agents can be introduced and transaction sequen...

We propose a topic-based inter-video news video corpus structuring method and a visual interface to efficiently browse through the structured corpus. Such inter-video structuring was not deeply sought in previous works. The topic-based structure is analyzed by closed-caption text analysis; topic segmentation and tracking. The visual interface provides the ability to 1)search and select a topic ...