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NPCEditor is a tool that uses a statistical language modeling approach called relevance models (probabilistic relevance model) to generate natural language responses. It is designed to be used in the development of virtual humans, which are computer-generated characters that can interact with users in a natural and lifelike way.

NPCEditor is now part of a Virtual Human Toolkit, which is a collection of modules, tools, and libraries that allow developers to create their own virtual humans. The Virtual Human Toolkit includes a range of tools and libraries for tasks such as natural language processing, speech synthesis, and facial animation, and it is designed to be a flexible and powerful platform for building virtual humans.

Question generation tools are tools that are used to automatically generate questions based on a given topic or set of data. These tools might be used, for example, to generate questions for a quiz or a game, or to create practice questions for students.
Storyteller agents are software programs that are designed to create and tell stories based on given input or data. These agents might be used, for example, to generate stories for children or to create personalized stories for users based on their preferences or interests.
Virtual suspects are computer-generated characters that are used in training or simulation scenarios to represent suspects in a crime or other investigation. These characters might be used, for example, to train law enforcement officers in interviewing techniques or to simulate interrogations in a simulated crime scene.

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All together now A Hartholt, D Traum, SC Marsella, A Shapiro… – Intelligent Virtual …, 2013 – Springer … 4.2 NPCEditor In the current distribution of the Toolkit, natural language understanding and agent functions such as dialogue management and output decisions are handled by the NPCEditor [22]. At the core of the NPCEditor … Cited by 46 Related articles All 7 versions

Checkpoint exercise: training with virtual actors in virtual worlds D Jan, E Chance, D Rajpurohit, D DeVault… – Intelligent Virtual …, 2011 – Springer … The understanding of user input works at the surface text with NPCEditor [2] as the classifier, which uses cross-language information retrieval techniques to learn the best output for any input from a training set of linked questions and answers. … Cited by 4 Related articles All 13 versions

Virtual Suspect William M Bruijnes, R op den Akker, A Hartholt… – Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2015 – Springer … The NPCEditor finds appropriate answers to the human’s question (d, e) and the RM orders those answers based on the answer frame (f). The answer that the RM selected to be most appropriate is executed by the VHToolkit (h). A wizard had the option to deviate from the RM …

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Introduction to the Articles on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence N Rychtyckyj, D Shapiro – AI Magazine, 2011 – aaai.org … Anton Leuski and David Traum describe their work in building a natural language-processing component for virtual humans in the article NPCEditor: Creating a Virtual Human Dialogue Using Information Retrieval Techniques. … All 2 versions

Virtual Suspect William A Hartholt, D Heylen – … , IVA 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, August …, 2015 – books.google.com … Specifically, we used the NPCEditor [8], a statistical text classifier that provides question-answer matching. … All answers in the NPCEditor were annotated in terms of the answer frame of the RM. The NPCEditor provided several appropriate answers to a question of the user. …

Natural language understanding: From laboratory predictions to real interactions P Mota, L Coheur, S Curto, P Fialho – Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2012 – Springer … Considering the CLM approach, SB’s developers have created the NPCEditor toolkit (NPC stands for Non Player Character) [8], which implements the CLM. Thus, the virtual human kit1 containing NPCEditor was used, through the provided message API. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 6 versions

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Ada and Grace: Direct interaction with museum visitors D Traum, P Aggarwal, R Artstein, S Foutz… – Intelligent Virtual …, 2012 – Springer … simultaneously. Acquirespeech waits for the text re- sponse from each engine, selects the one with the highest confidence score, and passes it along to the response selection component (NPCEditor [8]). Content enhancements. … Cited by 16 Related articles All 11 versions

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The Sigma cognitive architecture and system PS Rosenbloom – AISB Quarterly, 2013 – cs.usc.edu … Early work on natural language (NL) has demonstrated a form of statistical response selection that is modeled after (part of the) approach taken in the NPCEditor [20]. … 20. Leuski, A., & Traum, D. (2010). NPCEditor: A tool for building question-answering characters. … Cited by 16 Related articles All 3 versions

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