NPCEditor: Creating Virtual Human Dialogue Using Information Retrieval Techniques

Abstract

NPCEditor is a system for building a natural language‐processing component for virtual humans capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. It uses statistical language‐classification technology for mapping from a user's text input to system responses. NPCEditor provides a user‐friendly editor for creating effective virtual humans quickly. It has been deployed as a part of various virtual human systems in several applications.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Source ID
10.1609/aimag.v32i2.2347

Entities

People

  • Anton Leuski
  • David Traum

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation