Creating a Virtual Neighbor

Abstract

We present the first version of our Virtual Neighbor, who can talk with users about people employed in the same institution. The Virtual Neighbor can discuss information about employees in a medium sized company or institute with users. The system acquires information from three sources: a personnel directory database, public web pages, and through dialogue interaction. Users can interact through face to face spoken dialogue, using components from the ICT Virtual human toolkit, or via a chat interface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1158324

Entities

People

  • Carina Corbin
  • David R Traum
  • Fabrizio Morbini

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Dialogue Systems
  • Directories
  • Electronic Mail
  • Experimental Design
  • Human Body
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Named Entity Recognition
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Prototypes
  • Recognition
  • Relational Databases
  • Training
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Vision.