— This paper describes an ontology-driven model, which integrates Bayesian Networks (BN) into the Ontology Web Language (OWL) to preserve the advantages of both. This model makes...
Abstract. We propose ParleE, a quantitative, flexible and adaptive model of emotions for a conversational agent in a multi-agent environment capable of multimodal communication. Pa...
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijho...
Under Legg’s and Hutter’s formal measure [1], performance in easy environments counts more toward an agent’s intelligence than does performance in difficult environments. An ...
Due to its important role in dialogue, politeness has been widely studied both from a theoretical point of view and at a practical level in virtual agents. However, few attention ...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the function of imperatives in dialogue. In particular, the focus is on the use of logically complex imperatives (e.g., `Say hel...