Sgt Blackwell
SGT John Blackwell was created for the 2004 Army Science Conference, as a demo of ICT virtual human technology, including spoken question-answering ability, and mixed-reality presentation on a transparent screen. He has since befriended Dr John Parmentola, appeared with him at the 2006 Army Science Conference and briefly at the 2008 conference. He was also part of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's National Design Triennial. SGT Blackwell is now mostly retired.
Publications
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Full TextPractical Language Processing for Virtual Humans. In: Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-10).; 2010.
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Full TextNPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).; 2010.
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Full TextTalking to Virtual Humans: Dialogue Models and Methodologies for Embodied Conversational Agents. In: Wachsmuth I, Knoblich G, editors. Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans. Springer; 2008. p. 296-309.
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Full TextWhat would you ask a conversational agent? Observations of Human-Agent dialogues in a museum setting. In: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Marrakech (Morocco); 2008. Abstract
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Full TextA Statistical Approach for Text Processing in Virtual Humans. In: Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2008.
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Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments. In: Proceedings of I/ITSEC.; 2007.
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Full TextDealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06). Marina del Rey, CA; 2006.
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Full TextBuilding Effective Question Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia; 2006.
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Full TextAsking questions to limited domain virtual characters: how good does speech recognition have to be?. In: Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference.; 2006.