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Mobile Intelligent Virtual Agent with Translation Functionality

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 8455))

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Virtual agent is a powerful means for human-computer interaction. In this demo paper, we describe a new scenario for mobile virtual agent that, in addition to general social intelligence, can perform translation tasks. We present the design and development of the intelligent virtual agent that translates phrases and sentences from English into French, Russian, and Spanish. Initial evaluation results show that the possibility to translate phrases and short utterances is useful and interesting for the user.

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  1. Tilde, Vienibas gatve 75a, Riga, Latvia

    Inguna Skadiņa, Inese Vīra, Jānis Teseļskis & Raivis Skadiņš

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Skadiņa, I., Vīra, I., Teseļskis, J., Skadiņš, R. (2014). Mobile Intelligent Virtual Agent with Translation Functionality. In: Métais, E., Roche, M., Teisseire, M. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07983-7_38

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