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Artificial Companions

Published on Feb 25, 20073434 Views

What will an artificial Companion be like? Who will need them and how much good or harm will they do? Will they change our lives and social habits in the radical way technologies have in the past: jus

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Artificial Companions: Explorations in machine personality and dialogue00:00
What the talk contains:00:24
Machine dialogue: problems with available “theory”01:39
Important historical systems have all the modern traits and functionalities in miniature03:35
Colby’s PARRY 03:57
PARRY conversation04:52
Does the little block that the hatched pyramid’s support supports support anything black?05:00
Perrault, Cohen & Allen at Toronto05:36
1970’s division of approaches to machine conversation.06:36
Academic systems have moved towards performance07:07
AI people joined the performers: the Loebner Competition07:49
Sheffield University/Intelligent Systems won in 1998!09:08
Loebner Competition 1998---Sheffield’s winning entry!09:35
The CONVERSE prototype 199810:02
Sheffield dialogue circa 200210:49
Resources vs. highest level structure12:35
How this research is funded13:33
COMIC13:40
Design of a Dialogue Action Manager14:17
Dialogue Management 15:05
DAF example15:35
Current work: Learning to segment the dialogue corpora15:39
AMITIÉS Objectives16:59
Sheffield does the post ASR fusion in AMITIES17:16
Evaluation17:50
Evaluation: Interesting Numbers18:01
Learning to tag for Dialogue Acts: initial work18:15
Starting with a naive classifier for DAs18:33
Extending the pretagging with TBL18:50
Dialogue Research Challenges 20:20
What is the most structure that might be needed and how much of it can be learned?23:24
Young’s strategy not quite like Jelinek’s MT strategy of 1989!24:27
There are now four not two competing approaches to machine dialogue in NLP:25:44
Modes of dialogue with machine agents26:16
The Companions: a new economic and social goal for dialogue systems28:15
An idea for integrating the dialogue research agenda in a new style of application...28:57
A series of intelligent and sociable COMPANIONS29:22
Picture32:01
Other COMPANIONS32:03
Picture32:21
The Senior Companion is a major technical and social challenge32:22
Other issues for Companions we can hardly begin to formulate:33:05
Companions and the Web34:29
The technologies for a Companion are all there already35:21
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 pe37:01
Conclusions37:36