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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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  1. spoken dialog
  2. text classification

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January 29 - February 1, 2006
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