JOINT AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms 2004 - Martigny

Artificial Companions

author:Yorick Willks, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
published: Feb. 25, 2007, recorded: June 2004, views: 40

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0:00	Artificial Companions: Explorations in machine personality and dialogue
0:24	What the talk contains:
1:39	Machine dialogue: problems with available “theory”
3:35	Important historical systems have all the modern traits and functionalities in miniature
3:57	Colby’s PARRY
4:52	PARRY conversation
5:00	Does the little block that the hatched pyramid’s support supports support anything black?
5:36	Perrault, Cohen & Allen at Toronto
6:36	1970’s division of approaches to machine conversation.
7:07	Academic systems have moved towards performance
7:49	AI people joined the performers: the Loebner Competition
9:08	Sheffield University/Intelligent Systems won in 1998!
9:35	Loebner Competition 1998---Sheffield’s winning entry!
10:02	The CONVERSE prototype 1998
10:49	Sheffield dialogue circa 2002
12:35	Resources vs. highest level structure
13:33	How this research is funded
13:40	COMIC
14:17	Design of a Dialogue Action Manager
15:05	Dialogue Management
15:35	DAF example
15:39	Current work: Learning to segment the dialogue corpora
16:59	AMITIÉS Objectives
17:16	Sheffield does the post ASR fusion in AMITIES
17:50	Evaluation
18:01	Evaluation: Interesting Numbers
18:15	Learning to tag for Dialogue Acts: initial work
18:33	Starting with a naive classifier for DAs
18:50	Extending the pretagging with TBL
20:20	Dialogue Research Challenges
23:24	What is the most structure that might be needed and how much of it can be learned?
24:27	Young’s strategy not quite like Jelinek’s MT strategy of 1989!
25:44	There are now four not two competing approaches to machine dialogue in NLP:
26:16	Modes of dialogue with machine agents
28:15	The Companions: a new economic and social goal for dialogue systems
28:57	An idea for integrating the dialogue research agenda in a new style of application...
29:22	A series of intelligent and sociable COMPANIONS
32:01	Picture
32:03	Other COMPANIONS
32:21	Picture
32:22	The Senior Companion is a major technical and social challenge
33:05	Other issues for Companions we can hardly begin to formulate:
34:29	Companions and the Web
35:21	The technologies for a Companion are all there already
37:01	This isnt just about furry talking handbags on sofas, but any persistent and personalised entity that will interface to information sources: phones above all, and for dealing with the web in a more pe
37:36	Conclusions

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