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How to talk to a hologram

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There is a growing need for creating life-like virtual human simulations that can conduct a natural spoken dialog with a human student on a predefined subject. We present an overview of a spoken-dialog system that supports a person interacting with a full-size hologram-like virtual human character in an exhibition kiosk settings. We also give a brief summary of the natural language classification component of the system and describe the experiments we conducted with the system.

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                IUI '06: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
                January 2006
                392 pages
                ISBN:1595932879
                DOI:10.1145/1111449

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