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This paper presents compositional models of culture for conversational agents that are embedded in a training system for cross-cultural competency. Our models are implemented as ontologies of statements in common logic, with culture-specific and culture-general components. We compare the compositional framework to a finite-state system, in terms of development effort, number of reused and new objects, and flexibility and accuracy of resulting conversational simulations.
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Sagae, A., Hobbs, J.R., Wertheim, S., Agar, M.H., Ho, E., Johnson, W.L. (2012). Efficient Cultural Models of Verbal Behavior for Communicative Agents. In: Nakano, Y., Neff, M., Paiva, A., Walker, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_66
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