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Project No. | IST-2000-28580 (EU Information Society Technologies Programme) |
Duration | 2.5 years (starting date: October 2001) |
Goal | The objective of the project is to develop a new, more sophisticated generation of conversational agents: on-line beings which are able to speak and act like humans. The project focuses on communication between animated characters that exhibit credible personality traits and affective behaviour. [project overview] |
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ITRI NECA Team | Kees van Deemter, Anja Belz, Malin Bergenstrahle, Paul Piwek and Richard Power |
Main Homepage | NECA Main Homepage |
Papers |
Piwek, P. (2005). Generation Resources and Strategies in the NECA Multimodal Natural Language Generator. In: Proc. of Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-6). Tilburg University, The Netherlands. [short paper (.pdf)] [iwcs6-poster (.pdf)] Piwek, P., J. Masthoff and M. Bergenstrahle (2005). Reference and Gestures in Dialogue Generation: Three Studies with Embodied Conversational Agents In: Proc. of AISB05 Virtual Social Agents Symposium, University of Herfordshire. [evaluation materials][.pdf] Piwek, P., Power, R., Scott, D., van Deemter, K. (in press). Generating Multimedia Presentations: from plain text to screenplay. To appear in: O. Stock and and M. Zancanaro (Eds.), Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation. Dordrecht: Springer. [draft/preprint .pdf] Piwek, P. (2003). A Flexible Pragmatics-driven Language Generator for Animated Agents. In: Proceedings of EACL03 (Research Notes), Budapest. [.pdf] Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2003). Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue. In: Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, Stanford: AAAI Press. [.pdf] Piwek, P. (2003). An Annotated Bibliography of Affective Natural Language Generation. version 1.3 (version 1.0 appeared in 2002 as ITRI Technical Report ITRI-02-02, University of Brighton). [.pdf] Piwek, P. (2003). The effect of gestures on the perception of a dialogue between two embodied conversational agents: a pilot study. ITRI Technical Report ITRI-03-09. [.pdf] Piwek, P. and K. van Deemter (2002). Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies. In: Bos, J., M. Foster and C. Matheson, Proceedings of EDILOG: 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, September 4-6, 2002, pp. 141-148. [.ps][.pdf] Krenn B., Pirker H., Grice M., Baumann S., Piwek P., Deemter K. van, Schroeder M., Klesen M., Gstrein E. (2002). Generation of multimodal dialogue for net environments, in: Busemann S. (ed.), KONVENS 2002, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany, pp. 91-98, 2002. [.pdf] Piwek, P., B. Krenn, M. Schroeder, M. Grice, S. Baumann and H. Pirker (2002). RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA. Proceedings of the AAMAS workshop "Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!", Bologna, Italy, 16 July 2002. [.ps][.pdf][RRL Resources Page] |
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