Ask Alice: an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent

Michel Valstar; Catherine Pelachaud; Dirk K.J. Heylen; Soumia Dermouche; Alexandru Ghitulescu; T. Baur; A. Cafaro; B. Potard; E. André; J. Wagner; L. Durieu; M. Aylett; E. Coutinho; B. Schuller; Yue Zhang; Mariet Theune; Jelte van Waterschoot

doi:10.1145/2993148.2998535

Ask Alice: an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent

Michel Valstar, Catherine Pelachaud, Dirk K.J. Heylen, Soumia Dermouche, Alexandru Ghitulescu, T. Baur, A. Cafaro, B. Potard, E. André, J. Wagner, L. Durieu, M. Aylett, E. Coutinho, B. Schuller, Yue Zhang, Mariet Theune, Jelte van Waterschoot

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Abstract

We present a demonstration of the ARIA framework, a modular approach for rapid development of virtual humans for information retrieval that have linguistic, emotional, and social skills and a strong personality. We demonstrate the capabilities of our framework in a scenario where a popular book from the English literature, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, is embodied by a virtual human called Alice. During the presentation one can engage in an information exchange dialogue, where Alice acts as the expert on the book, and the user as an interested novice. Besides speech recognition, sophisticated audio-visual behaviour analysis is used to inform the core agent dialogue module about the user’s state and intentions, so that it can go beyond simple chat-bot dialogue. The behaviour generation module features a unique new capability of being able to deal gracefully with interruptions of the agent.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	419-420
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4556-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2993148.2998535
Publication status	Published - Nov 2016
Event	18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 12 Nov 2016 → 16 Nov 2016 Conference number: 18

Conference

Conference	18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016
Abbreviated title	ICMI
Country	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	12/11/16 → 16/11/16

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Valstar, M., Pelachaud, C., Heylen, D. K. J., Dermouche, S., Ghitulescu, A., Baur, T., Cafaro, A., Potard, B., André, E., Wagner, J., Durieu, L., Aylett, M., Coutinho, E., Schuller, B., Zhang, Y., Theune, M., & van Waterschoot, J. (2016). Ask Alice: an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016 (pp. 419-420). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2993148.2998535

Valstar, Michel ; Pelachaud, Catherine ; Heylen, Dirk K.J. ; Dermouche, Soumia ; Ghitulescu, Alexandru ; Baur, T. ; Cafaro, A. ; Potard, B. ; André, E. ; Wagner, J. ; Durieu, L. ; Aylett, M. ; Coutinho, E. ; Schuller, B. ; Zhang, Yue ; Theune, Mariet ; van Waterschoot, Jelte. / Ask Alice : an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. pp. 419-420

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Valstar, M, Pelachaud, C, Heylen, DKJ, Dermouche, S, Ghitulescu, A, Baur, T, Cafaro, A, Potard, B, André, E, Wagner, J, Durieu, L, Aylett, M, Coutinho, E, Schuller, B, Zhang, Y, Theune, M & van Waterschoot, J 2016, Ask Alice: an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent. in Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 419-420, 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016, Tokyo, Japan, 12/11/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2993148.2998535

Ask Alice : an Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent. / Valstar, Michel; Pelachaud, Catherine; Heylen, Dirk K.J.; Dermouche, Soumia; Ghitulescu, Alexandru; Baur, T.; Cafaro, A.; Potard, B.; André, E.; Wagner, J.; Durieu, L.; Aylett, M.; Coutinho, E.; Schuller, B.; Zhang, Yue; Theune, Mariet ; van Waterschoot, Jelte.

Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 419-420.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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