Exploiting Emotions to Disambiguate Dialogue Acts

N.J. Nunes; W.E. Bosma; C. Rich; E. André

doi:10.1145/964442.964459

Exploiting Emotions to Disambiguate Dialogue Acts

N.J. Nunes (Editor), W.E. Bosma, C. Rich (Editor), E. André

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Abstract

This paper describes an attempt to reveal the user’s intention from dialogue acts, thereby improving the effectiveness of natural interfaces to pedagogical agents. It focuses on cases where the intention is unclear from the dialogue context or utterance structure, but where the intention may still be identified using the emotional state of the user. The recognition of emotions is based on physiological user input. Our initial user study gave promising results that support our hypothesis that physiological evidence of emotions could be used to disambiguate dialogue acts. This paper presents our approach to the integration of natural language and emotions as well as our first empirical results, which may be used to endow interactive agents with emotional capabilities.

Original language	Undefined
Pages	85-92
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/964442.964459
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2004
Event	9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2004 - Funchal, Portugal Duration: 13 Jan 2004 → 16 Jan 2004 Conference number: 9

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2004
Abbreviated title	IUI
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Funchal
Period	13/01/04 → 16/01/04

Keywords

EWI-6718
IR-63378

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10.1145/964442.964459

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