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Character agents have become more popular in the Internet due to its attractiveness. This paper proposes an agent animation generation system which automatically selects agent behaviours as well as highlighting animations to emphasise the agent actions. In order to produce appropriate animations according to the content of agent’s spoken message, our system, first analyses the message text using natural language processing engine, and then selects animations based on the linguistic information calculated by the engine.
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Nakano, Y.I., Okamoto, M., Nishida, T. (2005). Enriching Agent Animations with Gestures and Highlighting Effects. In: Bolc, L., Michalewicz, Z., Nishida, T. (eds) Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence. IMTCI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558637_10
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