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| Title | NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters |
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| Authors | Anton Leuski and David Traum |
| Abstract | NPCEditor is a system for building anddeploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spokendialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long as thecharacter responses can be specified a priori. For example, NPCEditor has beenused for constructingquestion answering characters where a user asks questions andthe character responds, but other scenarios are possible.At the core of the system is a state of the art statistical languageclassification technology for mapping from user's text input to systemresponses. NPCEditor combines the classifier with a database that stores thecharacter information and relevant language data, a server that allows thecharacter designer to deploy the completed characters, and a user-friendlyeditor that helps the designer to accomplish both character design anddeployment tasks. In the paper we define the overall system architecture,describe individual NPCEditor components, and guide the reader through thesteps of building a virtual character. |
| Language | Tools, systems, applications |
| Topics | Authoring tools, proofing, Document Classification, Text categorisation, Tools, systems, applications |
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NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{LEUSKI10.660, author = {Anton Leuski and David Traum}, title = {NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |