Tactical Questioning (TACQ)
The purpose of this project is to develop technology for virtual humans to act as question-answering characters as part of interviewer training. Trainee interviewers can practice by interviewing virtual characters. The focus of the project is on tactical questioning, but the technology has been used successfully for a variety of interview tasks, including reporter-source, criminal investigator-prisoner, doctor-patient, and also used for training deception detection. The starting point was the Sgt Blackwell Character. We have since created several characters and a couple of generations of the architecture for tactical questioning characters.
2006 - 2011
US Army
Alumni
Research Efforts
Publications
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Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts. In: Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Portland, Oregon, USA: The Association for Computer Linguistics; 2011. p. 347-9. Abstract
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Evaluation of an Integrated Authoring Tool for Building Advanced Question-Answering Characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech-11. Florence, Italy; 2011. Abstract
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Limits of Simple Dialogue Acts for Tactical Questioning Dialogues. In: Proceedings of 7th IJCAI workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain); 2011. Abstract
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Does it matter if a computer jokes?. In: Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, CHI EA '11. Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM; 2011. p. 77-86. Abstract
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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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Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human. In: Ruttkay Z, Kipp M, Nijholt A, Vilhjálmsson HH, editors. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14–16, 2009 Proceedings. Vol 5733. Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 541-2. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol 5733).
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Full TextAn Integrated Authoring Tool for Tactical Questioning Dialogue Systems. In: 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Pasadena, California; 2009.
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Full TextViability of a Simple Dialogue Act Scheme for a Tactical Questioning Dialogue System. In: DiaHolmia 2009: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Stockholm, Sweden; 2009. p. 43-50.
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Full TextVarying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California; 2009.
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Full TextFrom domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Brisbane, Australia; 2008.
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Natural Language Dialogue Architectures for Tactical Questioning Characters. In: Army Science Conference. Florida; 2008.
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Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments. In: Proceedings of I/ITSEC.; 2007.
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A model of compliance and emotion for potentially adversarial dialogue agents. In: In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2007.
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Full TextHassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning. In: Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.; 2007. p. 71-4.