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Showing 1 to 20 of 603 for “"Conversational"”.
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Conversational scene analysis
In this thesis, we develop computational tools for analyzing conversations based on nonverbal auditory cues. We develop a notion of conversations as being made up of a variety of scenes: in each scene, either one speaker is holding the floor or both are speaking at equal levels. Our goal is to find …
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Toward effective conversational messaging
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Creating Your Own Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agents Using Convo, a Conversational Programming System
… phones and homes. Despite their ubiquity, these conversational AI agents still largely remain a mystery to many, in terms of how they work and what they can do. To lower the barrier to entry to understanding and creating these conversational AI agents for young students, I expanded on Convo, a …
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Conversational Agent for Health Coaching
… Thus, in this thesis we present the concept of "Conversational User Interface in Health Coaching Interventions" that consists of a just-in-time health services to users and caregivers. We discuss ways to integrate the chatbot to assist caregivers with their tasks and support users with their …
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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature.As the first part of the thesis, Grice's theory of conversational implicature is revised. This is done by 1)an addition to Grice's Maxim of Quality so that this maxim will be able to take presupposition into account; 2)an …
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A Layered Conversational Recommender System
In this thesis a new approach to building product recommender systems is introduced. By using a customer-centric dialogue, the customers' preferences are elicited. These are the basis for inferring utility estimations about the desired technical properties of the products in question. Systems built …
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Chatter--a conversational telephone agent
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse
… a hearer's response (following certain rules of conversational co-operation). I go on to present what is intended as a preliminary model, which is designed to capture the characteristic relationship and interaction of speech acts in conversational dialogue, especially those features which …
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Conversational Interaction and Gender in Fiction /
The aim of the research is to examine the differences of women’s and men’s speech in the book “Women in Love” by David Herbert Lawrence. The major objectives of this study are to present the notions and results of research made by various scholars towards gender differences in communication …
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Conversational Implicature in Children's Referential Communication
Contemporary theories of language comprehension emphasize the importance of listeners' active, cognitive contributions to message meaning. A major class of contributions is the listener's knowledge of the conventions of language use (Rule Knowledge). H. P. Grice has described some abstract …
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Action scheduling in humanoid conversational agents
This paper presents an approach to action scheduling in lifelike humanoid agents. The action scheduler constitutes a module in the agent which links the mental processes to the physical actions of the agent. It receives requests from the agent's behavior generating modules and schedules them to be …
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GrandChair : conversational collection of grandparents' stories
… for grandparents must be based on a model of conversational behavior, must provide a comfortable and story-evoking environment, and that the ideal interface is an autonomous animated character. I present GrandChair, a system which can elicit, record, index, and play back grandparents' stories …
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Translingual grammar induction for conversational systems
… domains within the context of multilingual conversational systems. It uses a pre-existing one-way translation system from some other language to the target language as prior information. It then infers a grammar for the target language. We demonstrate the system's effectiveness on a weather …
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A conversational interface to news retrieval
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Conversational agents for tutoring digital board games
We first present Jessy, a chatbot for tutoring The Royal Game of Ur. Jessy answers questions about the game rules, suggests the next best move considering the player’s state, and informs the player about the important events within the game. An explanatory study showed that Jessy assistant was …
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Conversational AI and Summarization of Digital Sources
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
… aimed to teach children with ASD to sustain conversational behavior with an adult experimenter. The study was conducted on the basis of Kantor's Psychological Linguistics and Bijou et al.'s set of procedures developed for identifying and analyzing referential interactions. The purpose of the …
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Effective Tutoring with Empathic Embodied Conversational Agents
This thesis examines the prospect of using empathy in an Embodied Tutoring System (ETS) that guides students through an online quiz (by providing feedback on student answers and responding to self-reported student emotion). The ETS seeks to imitate human behaviours successfully used in one-to-one …
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The development of conversational and communication skills
… investigates the development of children's conversational and communication skills. This is done by investigating both communicative process and outcome in two communication media: face-to-face interaction and audio-only interaction. Communicative outcome is objectively measured by assessing …
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