| Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations, digital files |
| Contents |
1. From chatbots to dialog systems / Tina Klüwer -- 2. Designing and evaluating interactive agents as social skills tutors for children with autism spectrum disorder / Marissa Milne [and others] -- 3. Designing ECAs to improve robustness of human-machine dialogue / Beatriz López Mencía -- 4. Dialogue act classification exploiting lexical semantics / Nicole Novielli and Carlo Strapparava -- 5. A cognitive dialogue manager for education purposes / Roberto Pirrone, Vincenzo Cannella, Giuseppe Russo and Arianna Pipitone -- 6. Building a social conversational pedagogical agent: design challenges and methodological approaches / Agneta Gulz [and others] -- 7. Design and implementation issues for convincing conversational agents / Markus Löckelt -- 8. Extending conversational agents for task-oriented human-computer dialogue / Pierre Andrews and Silvia Quarteroni -- 9. Affective conversational agents: the role of personality and emotion in spoken interactions / Zoraida Callejas [and others] -- 10. Enhancement of conversational agents by means of multimodal interaction / Ramón López-Cózar -- 11. Embodied conversational virtual patients / Patrick G. Kenny and Thomas D. Parsons -- 12. A conversational personal assistant for senior users / Deborah A. Dahl -- 13. A companionable agent / Roberta Catizone and Yorick Wilks -- 14. Humanizing conversational agents: indisys practical case study in eHealth / J. Gabriel Amores, Pilar Manchón and Guillermo Pérez -- 15. Design and development of an automated voice agent: theory and practice brought together / Pepi Stavropoulou, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos and Georgios Kouroupetroglou -- 16. Conversational agents in language and culture training / Alicia Sagae, W. Lewis Johnson and Andre Valente -- 17. The future of companionable agents / Roberta Catizone and Yorick Wilks -- 18. Future trends for conversational agents / Diana Pérez-Marín and Ismael Pascual-Nieto |
| Summary |
"This book is a reference guide for researchers entering the promising field of conversational agents, providing an introduction to fundamental concepts in the field, collecting experiences of researchers working on conversational agents, and reviewing techniques for the design and application of conversational agents"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Agent capabilities |
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Expressiveness |
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Computational linguistics |
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Conversational agents |
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Conversational personal assistants |
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Design |
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Dialogue management techniques |
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Interactive agents |
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Natural language (NL) interaction |
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User interaction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed July 18, 2011) |
| Subject |
Natural language processing (Computer science)
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Computer-assisted instruction.
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Discourse analysis -- Data processing
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Speech therapy -- Data processing
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Natural Language Processing
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Computer-Assisted Instruction
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Computer-assisted instruction
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Discourse analysis -- Data processing
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Natural language processing (Computer science)
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Speech therapy -- Data processing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perez-Marin, Diana, 1980-
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Pascual-Nieto, Ismael, 1981-
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IGI Global.
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| ISBN |
9781609606183 |
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1609606183 |
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