Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts

TitleRapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsGandhe, S., A. Taylor, J. Gerten, and D. R. Traum
Conference NameProceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, The 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Date Published06/2011
PublisherThe Association for Computer Linguistics
Conference LocationPortland, Oregon, USA
Abstract

We demonstrate a dialogue system and the accompanying authoring tools that are designed to allow authors with little or no experience in building dialogue systems to rapidly build advanced question-answering characters. To date seven such virtual characters have been built by non-experts using this architecture and tools. Here we demonstrate one such character, PFC Sean Avery, which was developed by a non-expert in 3 months.

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