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We present the first version of our Virtual Neighbor, who can talk with users about people employed in the same institution. The Virtual Neighbor can discuss information about employees in a medium-sized company or institute with users. The system acquires information from three sources: a personnel directory database, public web-pages, and through dialogue interaction. Users can interact through face-to-face spoken dialogue, using components from the ICT Virtual human toolkit, or via a chat interface.
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The first author was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant 1263386, “REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences” (PI: Evan Suma).
The effort described here has been sponsored by the U.S. Army. Any opinions, content or information presented do not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the United States Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
We would like to thank Ed Fast and Eli Pincus for help with this work.
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Corbin, C., Morbini, F., Traum, D. (2015). Creating a Virtual Neighbor. In: Lee, G., Kim, H., Jeong, M., Kim, JH. (eds) Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19291-8_19
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