Culturally Specific Dialogue
There are many aspects of dialogue that are influenced by culture of the participants. There will be differences in turn taking behaviors, differences in how far apart participants stand from each other and they will prefer different strategies in negoatiations. This effort focuses on exploring these differences and formalizing them in computational models that drive our virtual humans.
Projects
Publications
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Culture-specific models of negotiation for virtual characters: multi-attribute decision-making based on culture-specific values. AI & Society, Special Issue on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters. In Press.
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Full TextA cultural decision-making model for negotiation based on inverse reinforcement learning. In: 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan; 2012.
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An annotation scheme for cross-cultural argumentation and persuasion dialogues. In: 12th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Portland, Oregon, USA; 2011.
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Learning culture-specific dialogue models from non-culture specific data. In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International. Orlando, Florida, USA; 2011.
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Reinforcement learning of argumentation dialogue policies in negotiation. In: Interspeech, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Florence, Italy; 2011.
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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 TextA Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior. In: IVA. Paris, France: Springer; 2007. p. 45-56.
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