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Improvising linguistic style: social and affective bases for agent personality

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Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents table of contents

Marina del Rey, California, United States

Pages: 96 - 105

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-877-0

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Marilyn A. Walker	AT&T Labs Research, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ
Janet E. Cahn	MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA
Stephen J. Whittaker	AT&T Labs Research, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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