Conversational Interface & Dialog Systems 2019

Notes:

Artificial intelligence
Conversational interfaces
Nuance Recognizer

Resources:

furhatrobotics.com .. “the world’s most social robots”
iristk.net .. Java-based framework for developing multi-modal interactive systems

Wikipedia:

A Comparative Study of Self-Diagnosis User Interfaces for Depression: Focusing on Usability of Paper-Based, Text-Based and Voice-Based Conversational Interface
O Mangkang, JY Yun – ?? HCI ?? ????, 2019 – dbpia.co.kr
… Research on the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence-based interactive interface in many clinical … The conversational interface: Talking to smart devices … and language-benefit: additional evaluation criteria for natural language dialogue systems.” International Journal of …

Survey of conversational agents in health
JLZ Montenegro, CA da Costa… – Expert Systems with …, 2019 – Elsevier
… health. Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the world and the relationships among humans as the learning capabilities of machines have allowed for a new means of communication between humans and machines …

User-aware conversational agents
QV Liao, M Shmueli-Scheuer, TH Wen… – Proceedings of the 24th …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… service agents, intelligent tutors), driven by recent advances in artificial intelligence and natural … Recent topics include adaptive conversational interface, conversational search, and agents sup- porting … and ML to create a general platform for deploying spoken dialogue systems …

Dialogue Systems and Conversational Agents for Patients with Dementia: The Human–Robot Interaction
A Russo, G D’Onofrio, A Gangemi, F Giuliani… – Rejuvenation …, 2019 – liebertpub.com
… scientific disciplines, including linguistics and cogni- tive sciences, artificial intelligence and software … Conversational Agents: Chatterbots and Dialogue Systems Early spoken language systems have been mainly devel- oped for telephone-based conversational interfaces (Fig …

Towards scalable multi-domain conversational agents: The schema-guided dialogue dataset
A Rastogi, X Zang, S Sunkara, R Gupta… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… This allows a single dialogue system to easily support a large number of services … The re- cent popularity of conversational interfaces and the advent of frameworks like Actions on … approaches Copyright c 2020, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai …

Data Science and Conversational Interfaces: A New Revolution in Digital Business
D Griol, Z Callejas – Data Science and Digital Business, 2019 – Springer
… McTear, MF, Callejas, Z., & Griol, D. (2016). The conversational interface: Talking to smart devices … Responding to student uncertainty in spoken tutorial dialogue systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16, 171–194.Google Scholar. 22 …

WCIS 2019: 1st Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems
A Rastogi, A Papangelis, R Goel, C Khatri – Proceedings of the 42nd …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… the par- ticipants from the SIGIR community to walk away with a better understanding of modern conversational interfaces as well as … Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 21 (2004), 393–428 … Dialog System Technology Challenge 7. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03461 (2019) …

… Evaluation of Self-Diagnosis User Interfaces for Depression: A Comparative Study among Paper-Based, Text-Based, and Voice-Based Conversational Interfaces
O Mangkang, JY Yun – ?? HCI ?? ???, 2019 – dbpia.co.kr
… Research on the effectiveness of an artificial intelligence-based conversational interface in many clinical treatments has shown that it can have a positive impact on … For conversational interface, according to Walker et al., Paradigm for Dialogue System Evaluation (PARADISE …

The personalization of conversational agents in health care: Systematic review
AB Kocaballi, S Berkovsky, JC Quiroz, L Laranjo… – Journal of medical …, 2019 – jmir.org
… technologies has been facilitated by a renaissance in Artificial Intelligence, the development of … Dialogue systems can offer fine-grained possibilities to personalize the information to … and nonverbal communication, and commonly available smart conversational interfaces such as …

Conversational Interfaces for Explainable AI: A Human-Centred Approach
SF Jentzsch, S Höhn, N Hochgeschwender – International Workshop on …, 2019 – Springer
… Pepper is a well suitable example for the pretended artificial intelligence in the cover story of this investigation … Inferring implications for an implementation in a dialogue system … As we aim to implement a Conversational Interface based on our findings, the forth step was added to …

Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents
Z Xing, F Yu, J Du, JS Walker, CB Paulson… – Journal of medical …, 2019 – jmir.org
… The emergence of conversational interfaces (CIs) enables users to talk to a machine [1]. Using … In addition, a recent report on artificial intelligence (AI) by World Intelligence Property Organization … CI-related terms [1,2,21,26], such as spoken dialogue system, conversational agent …

Understanding and measuring user experience in conversational interfaces
AB Kocaballi, L Laranjo, E Coiera – Interacting with Computers, 2019 – academic.oup.com
… of conversational interfaces has been facilitated by a renaissance in Artificial Intelligence, the development of … There is very little work on evaluating UX in conversational interfaces … specifically focusing on assessing user experience of multimodal dialogue systems is SUXES …

Chatterbox: Conversational interfaces for microtask crowdsourcing
P Mavridis, O Huang, S Qiu, U Gadiraju… – Proceedings of the 27th …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… the conversational agent (eg intent recognition), or to substitute artificial intelligence for conversation … automated chat system that helps wrapping up Web-APIs into spoken dialog systems … cast votes on candidate responses, a web-based conversational interface (resembling an …

Evaluating Use Cases Suitability for Conversational User Interfaces.
P Ferreira, A Vasconcelos – ICEIS (1), 2019 – scitepress.org
… The developments in the artificial intelligence field have been responsible to the rise of new … Modern task-based dialog systems are based on a domain ontology, a knowledge structure … offer the ability to order and explore services or goods directly by a conversational interface …

Developing enhanced conversational agents for social virtual worlds
D Griol, A Sanchis, JM Molina, Z Callejas – Neurocomputing, 2019 – Elsevier
… Our proposal combines different techniques related to Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Affective … One of the core aspects of developing conversational interfaces for virtual environments is to … domain in order to optimize the behavior of the dialog system in that …

Towards a taxonomy of platforms for conversational agent design
S Diederich, AB Brendel, LM Kolbe – 2019 – aisel.aisnet.org
… McTear, M., Callejas, Z., Griol, D.: The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices … Kim, S., Lee, GG: Example-based dialog modeling for practical multi- domain dialog system … J., Randolph Ford, W., Farreras, IG: Real conversations with artificial intelligence: A comparison …

Conversation is multimodal: thus conversational user interfaces should be as well
S Schaffer, N Reithinger – … of the 1st International Conference on …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… dfki.de norbert.reithinger@dfki.de German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin … modality for conversa- tional interfaces [3]. However, now that conversational interfaces are pop up … So called multimodal dialog systems have been developed with a wide range of …

Algorithmic transparency of conversational agents
S Hepenstal, N Kodagoda, L Zhang, P Paudyal… – 2019 – eprints.mdx.ac.uk
… 1 INTRODUCTION With advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, reasoning like cognitive processes … To allow for evidence based sense making, conversational interfaces must, therefore, be … we will therefore apply the definition of ‘spoken dialogue systems’ given by …

Human-Augmented Robotic Intelligence (HARI) for Human-Robot Interaction
V Mruthyunjaya, C Jankowski – Proceedings of the Future Technologies …, 2019 – Springer
… From a spoken dialogue system point of view, the spoken language understanding has three … The artificial intelligence learning system, similar to HRI and HARI systems, is also a … of Interspeech (2007)Google Scholar. 8. Zue, V., Glass, J.: Conversational interface: advances and …

Real-World Conversational AI for Hotel Bookings
B Li, N Jiang, J Sham, H Shi… – … on Artificial Intelligence …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… 1] LC Klopfenstein, S. Delpriori, S. Malatini, and A. Bogliolo, “The rise of bots: A survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and … [2] DG Bobrow, RM Kaplan, M. Kay, DA Norman, H. Thompson, and T. Winograd, “Gus, a frame-driven dialog system,” Artificial intelligence, vol …

Conversational agent for aerospace question answering: A position paper
A Arnold, G Dupont, C Kobus… – Proceedings of the 1st …, 2019 – researchgate.net
… retrieval have provided major breakthroughs in the form of conversational interfaces for contextual … kobus,francois.lancelot,pooja.narayan@airbus.com, AIRBUS Artificial Intelligence Re- search, 2 rond … For a more complete review on data driven dialog systems, please refer to …

Artificial Intelligence Based College Chabot For Admission Related Faqs
JP Patra – Journal of the Gujarat Research Society, 2019 – gujaratresearchsociety.in
… Users interact with the chatbot via conversational interface through written or spoken text … The Chatbots designed for dialogue systems in the selected studies are, in general, limited to … With the help of artificial intelligence, the system should answer the query asked by the …

Insights from Conversational User Interface Projects
S Schaffer, N Reithinger – dfki.de
… INTRODUCTION DFKI’s (German research center for artificial intelligence) Cognitive Assistants team in Berlin … Therefore, in most of our dialog system projects we use the Multimodal Mobile … options for a car should be made accessible through a conversational interface …

A Voice Interactive Multilingual Student Support System using IBM Watson
K Ralston, Y Chen, H Isah… – 2019 18th IEEE …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Amazon provides a chatbot API called Lex2 to build conversational interfaces for applications … A. Courville, and J. Pineau, “Building end-to-end dialogue systems using generative hierarchical neural network models,” in Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016 …

Paving the way towards counterfactual generation in argumentative conversational agents
I Stepin, A Catalá, M Pereira-Fariña… – … Artificial Intelligence …, 2019 – aclweb.org
… In conclusion, counterfactual explanations are likely to enrich conversational interfaces of any system to be … In Proceedings of the Twenty-first European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’14, pages 207 … A survey on dialogue systems: Recent advances and new frontiers …

Conversational User Interface Integration in Controlling IoT Devices Applied to Smart Agriculture: Analysis of a Chatbot System Design
E Symeonaki, K Arvanitis, D Piromalis… – Proceedings of SAI …, 2019 – Springer
… In: The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices, pp … Stoyanchev, S., Lison, P., Bangalore, S.: Rapid prototyping of formdriven dialogue systems using an open … In: Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1994, Seattle, Washington …

INTELLIGENT CONVERSATIONAL AGENT INTEGRATION TO A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR CONTROLLING IOTDEVICES IN SMART AGRICULTURE …
E Symeonaki, K Arvanitis, P Papageorgas, D Piromalis – 2019 – efita-org.eu
… Moreover, the chatbot system is empowered through artificial intelligence learning techniques … and usability of multimodal spoken language dialogue systems’ Speech Communication … 2016) ‘Implementing spoken language understanding’, The conversational interface: Talking to …

Promoting Reusability and Extensibility in the Engineering of Domain-Specific Conversational Systems
PE Velmovitsky, M Viana, E Cirilo… – 2019 8th Brazilian …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… [2] D. Scerri and A. Dingli, “Dialog systems and their … [5] LC Klopfenstein, S. Delpriori, S. Malatini, and A. Bogliolo, “The rise of bots: a survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and paradigms,” in DIS, 2017 … [8] S. Makridakis, “The forthcoming artificial intelligence (ai) revolution …

New Learning Scenarios with Chatbots–Conversational Learning with Jix: from Digital Tutors to Serious Interactive Fiction Games
C Kowald, B Bruns – International Journal of …, 2019 – … journals.publicknowledgeproject.org
… Artificial intelligence is one of the key technologies of the 21st Century … The range of possible applications stretches from a pure dialog system with artificial avatars as virtual … AI-driven conversational interfaces open up a variety of new applications for learn- ing and development …

Talking to Everything: Conversational Interfaces and the Internet of Things in an office environment
M Augustsson – 2019 – diva-portal.org
… Having a single, unique conversational interface that works for every device might … Conversational User Interfaces Also known as “Chatbots” or “Dialogue systems”, conversational user … This field combines computational linguistics and artificial intelligence [26], and research into …

Optimising user experience with: conversational Interfaces
AMG Costa – 2019 – recipp.ipp.pt
… the main techniques and their state of the art in the field of artificial intelligence, more precisely … One area of improvement in the field of conversational interfaces we can identify, is the … “How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation …

Chatbot for Government Examination using AI
J Dias, D Kamdi, N Gharat, P Chudhari – academia.edu
… job in the government sector but also interesting due to its conversational interface … Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts … Chatbot’s are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer …

Developing a Design Guide for Consistent Manifestation of Conversational Agent Personalities
H Kim, DY Koh, G Lee, JM Park, Y Lim – … University, Manchester, UK, 2019 – iasdr2019.org
… 4 conversations or on the development of a dialog system, there seemed to lack sufficient instructions on consistent manifestation of intended personalities of CAs … Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13(3), 273-295. Dwoskin, E. (2016) … Introducing the Conversational Interface …

A Proposal for the Development of Lifelong Dialog Systems
D Griol, A Sanchis, JM Molina – … Workshop on Soft Computing Models in …, 2019 – Springer
… The artificial intelligence of conversational interfaces is also … In the literature we can find different systems and research projects focused on the integration of dialog systems for lifelong or continuous learning (LL, also known as Learning to Learn) [5, 8]. As described in [9 …

Personality In Conversational UI design.
BA Kumar – engrxiv.org
… use Digital DNA to encode digital humans for conversational UI, but the algorithms for a functional persistence of social networks, feedback from users and data structures for user information and social mining if any are not known, similar conversational interfaces like Cortana …

University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, USA parde@ uic. edu
N Parde – 2019 – natalieparde.com
… KEYWORDS spoken dialogue systems; conversational systems; human-robot interaction … Although many conversational interfaces focus on surface-level small talk, these findings suggest … In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18 …

Computational Intelligence in Conversational UI, A BotLibre Case Study. A survey paper
BA Kumar – engrxiv.org
… conversational UI are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer service or information acquisition … To eliminate these costs, some startups are ex perimenting with Artificial Intelligence to develop self-learning conversa tional UI, particularly …

How do Physiotherapists and Patients talk?
A Bolioli, F Alloatti, M Guadalupi, RI Lanzi… – ceur-ws.org
… A recent review of scientific literature about Artificial Intelligence and IoT in healthcare can be found in (Shah and Chircu, 2018 … wearable device with motion sensors developed by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), integrated with a visual App and a conversational interface …

Enquiry Chatbot at District Court using NLP
L Fating, N Kshirsagar, S Bokade, U Kamth, A Bhange – ijresm.com
… Our projects are based on Deep learning and artificial intelligence as we all … conversation continuous, there is a need to build a dialogue system (programmed) called … Valtolina, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Serena Di Gaetano, “Chatbots and Conversational Interfaces: Three Domains …

Generating dialogue agents via automated planning
A Botea, C Muise, S Agarwal, O Alkan, O Bajgar… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… AI planning tech- niques and described an approach to generate multi-turn navigational commands to be followed by a human user in a conversational interface to achieve … 2010) who focus on using (factored) POMDPs to man- age spoken dialogue systems in various domains …

Human-Agent Communication: Connecting Research and Development in HCI and AI
QV Liao, YC Wang, T Bickmore, P Fung… – … Publication of the 2019 …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… as well as tackling the technical challenges in the underlying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies … I would like to discuss “how to evaluate dialog systems” … Recent topics she worked on include adaptive conversational interface, conversational search, and agents supporting …

Conversational Recommender System Chatbot Based on Functional Requirement
D Theosaksomo, DH Widyantoro – 2019 IEEE 13th …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The growth of artificial intelligence field such as deep learning enables smarter chatbots to be developed … the system is using forms and menus to interact with users, and not yet using a conversational interface … A TV program discovery dialog system using recommendations …

Modernization of Google Assistant Automation System
H Pathak, A Chandra, A Dwivedi, N Tiwari – itgjournal.com
… preprint arxiv:1603.04467, 2016 [7] F.weng, p. Angkititrakul, e. Shirberg et all, conversational invehicle dialog systems: the past … [10] Google official website of artificial intelligence projects,https … Amazon lex is a service for building conversational interfaces.https://aws.amazon …

Storytelling chatbot for „Spices, tasteful stories “exhibition
FC TOFAN – researchgate.net
… Also called conversational bot, chatterbot, interactive agent, conversational interface or artificial … are sophisticated natural language processing systems based on artificial intelligence that could … Others dialogue systems was developed based on sophisticated algorithms such as …

Visualizing natural language interaction for conversational in-vehicle information systems to minimize driver distraction
M Braun, N Broy, B Pfleging, F Alt – Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2019 – Springer
… Progress in the field of artificial intelligence will most likely lead to an enhancement of natural language recognition in voice-controlled IVIS, and enable the development of an intelligent personal assistant … [37] provides insights on how a conversational interface can be …

FeelFit-Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Agent to Enhance Health Awareness.
P Meier, JH Beinke, C Fitte, A Behne, F Teuteberg – ICIS, 2019 – researchgate.net
… Given developments in recent years in the fields of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and CI design, CAs (eg, chatbots and … Conversational interfaces are particularly common in the field of mental health, wherein they support psychotherapy in the treatment of …

Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Building Medical Dialog Systems in Russian
A Vatian, N Dobrenko, N Andreev… – … on Intelligent Data …, 2019 – Springer
… So based on these results we have developed combined dialog system which is based on … 1. McTear, M., Callejas, Z., Griol, D.: The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices … DS: Survey on medical self-diagnosis chatbot for accurate analysis using artificial intelligence …

Miscommunication detection and recovery in situated human–robot dialogue
M Marge, AI Rudnicky – ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… In Section 4, we describe TeamTalk, a conversational interface to robots that was used in … Olympus provides all of the software components necessary for a task-based dialogue system … open-source ontology platform that has seen wide adoption in artificial intelligence research …

Planning for goal-oriented dialogue systems
C Muise, T Chakraborti, S Agarwal, O Bajgar… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
Page 1. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 1 (under review) 1-42 Submitted 10/19; published ?? Planning for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems Christian Muise CHRISTIAN.MUISE@ IBM.COM IBM Research AI, Cambridge, USA Tathagata Chakraborti …

Designing for health chatbots
A Fadhil, G Schiavo – arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.09022, 2019 – arxiv.org
… We analyze scientific literature in conversational interfaces and chatterbots, providing a … Keywords Design Patterns, Bots, Conversational UIs, Dialogue Systems, Health and Wellbeing … Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made considerable progress in various domains …

GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND RESEARCHES
CS Mahalakshmi, T Sharmila, S Priyanka, MR Sastry… – gjesr.com
… and professionals in performing certain specific tasks, so that artificial intelligence in this … as smartbot, chatterbot, imbot, talkbot, bot, interactive agent, conversational interface artificial conversation … Chatbot are typically used in dialogue systems for various practical purposes …

Prototyping relational things that talk: a discursive design strategy for conversational AI systems
B Aga – 2019 – pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
… ABSTRACT This practice-based research inquiry explores the implications of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, ‘relational things that talk’, on the way people experience the world … 47 2.1. The Conversational Interface ….. 48 2.2 …

A short survey on chatbot technology: failure in raising the state of the art
FS Marcondes, JJ Almeida, P Novais – … and Artificial Intelligence, 2019 – Springer
… S., Malatini, S., Bogliolo, A.: The rise of bots: a survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and … N., Chen, P., Zhou, M., Zhou, J., Li, Z.: Building task-oriented dialogue systems for online … In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 …

Essential Features and Critical Issues with Educational Chatbots: Toward Personalized Learning via Digital Agents
J Riel – … , Administration, and Technologies. Hershey, PA: IGI …, 2019 – papers.ssrn.com
… Provide a human-like conversational interface to the computer Humans are social and innately use language to communicate, to think, and to learn … International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Education, 26(1), 160-169 … Comparison of Eliza with modern dialogue systems …

Once a kind friend is now a thing: Understanding how conversational agents at home are forgotten
M Cho, S Lee, KP Lee – Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Pre-Adoption: Vague Expectations Users who wanted to participate in the study had similar expectations regardless of technology adoption level; their perception of Alexa was, in short, “a talking artificial intelligence.” They knew about Alexa vaguely from advertisements and …

A Multi-modal Approach to Concept Learning in Task Oriented Conversational Agents
TJJ Li, M Radensky, T Mitchell, B Myers – … Agents: Acting on the Wave of …, 2019 – par.nsf.gov
… Page 8. 126 TJ-J. Li et al. Fig. 6.1 Screenshots of the current version of Sugilite prototype: a the conversational interface; b the recording confirmation popup; c the recording disambiguation/ operation editing panel and d the viewing/editing script window 6.3.3 Key Design Goals …

Combining speech-based and linguistic classifiers to recognize emotion in user spoken utterances
D Griol, JM Molina, Z Callejas – Neurocomputing, 2019 – Elsevier
… Similarly, emotion recognition is currently at the core of the most advanced conversational interfaces [28], [29], [30] to operate in scenarios … Although emotion is receiving increasing attention from the dialog systems community, most research described in the literature is devoted …

Realistic natural interaction with virtual statues in x-reality environments.
G Margetis, G Papagiannakis, C Stephanidis – International Archives of …, 2019 – d-nb.info
… conversations generated by conversational agents are driven by artificial intelligence, while others … Several Neural Network approaches pursue realistic spoken dialogue systems, such as … set must be adopted in designing and developing conversational interfaces, even when a …

How may i help you?–state of the art and open research questions for chatbots at the digital workplace
R Meyer von Wolff, S Hobert… – … of the 52nd …, 2019 – scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
… It usually uses artificial intelligence and integrates multiple (enterprise) data sources (like databases or applications) to automate tasks or assist users in their (work … [6] Bang, J., H. Noh, Y. Kim, and GG Lee, “Example-based chat-oriented dialogue system with personalized long …

Multimodal conversational interaction with robots
G Skantze, J Gustafson, J Beskow – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… body. Hal only stares at the interlocutor with his (now emblematic) red eye. For a long time, spoken dialogue systems developed in research labs and employed in the industry also lacked any physical embodiment. One reason …

Recommending Moodle Resources Using Chatbots
K Souali, O Rahmaoui, M Ouzzif… – … Conference on Signal …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… issues, provide customer support and assistance, and offer recommendations powered by artificial intelligence … paper, we have presented a literature review on dialogue systems and proposed … S. Di Gaetano, P. Diliberto, “Chatbots and conversational interfaces: three domains …

Transforming the communication between citizens and government through AI-guided chatbots
A Androutsopoulou, N Karacapilidis, E Loukis… – Government Information …, 2019 – Elsevier
… Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been extensively used to support and enhance the quality of decision making and problem … language interface with graphical UI elements (eg buttons, images, menus, videos, etc.), known as ‘conversational interfaces’ (Klopfenstein et al …

Self-Attentional Models Application in Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation Systems
M Saffar Mehrjardi – 2019 – era.library.ualberta.ca
… AI Artificial Intelligence AIML Artificial Intelligence Markup Language ALICE Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity … Health [90] tries to automate the process of initial diagnosis and triage through a conversational interface. This can help many patients who have difficulty in …

Entertaining and opinionated but too controlling: a large-scale user study of an open domain Alexa prize system
KK Bowden, J Wu, W Cui, J Juraska… – Proceedings of the 1st …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Natural Language and Dialogue Systems †Human Computer … KEYWORDS Conversational Interfaces, Open-Domain, Field Trial ACM Reference format: Kevin K. Bowden, Jiaqi Wu, Wen Cui, Juraj Juraska, Vrindavan Harrison, Brian Schwarzmann, Nicholas Santer, Steve …

Identifying Variables that Improve Communication with Bots
S Floyd – 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… I. INTRODUCTION Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have flourished over the last decade with … 2]. Paraiso and Barthès note engineers are building conversational interfaces that could help … Kepuska and Bohouta describe IPA as spoken dialogue systems, which use various …

Use Cases for Conversational Agents: An Interview-based Study
S Laumer, FT Gubler, A Racheva, C Maier – 2019 – aisel.aisnet.org
… Newer technologies are, however, part of artificial intelligence (AI) research due to their ability to learn from … only recommend a conversational agent to friends or family if they perceive the dialog system as being … “Embodied conversational interface agents,” Communications of …

An Intelligent Tutoring System for Procedural Training with Natural Language Interaction.
J Paladines, J Ramírez – CSEDU (2), 2019 – academia.edu
… Nowadays, there are some platforms on the market to implement conversational interfaces; among the most popular are Google’s Dialog Flow … Mallios, S. and Bourbakis, N. (2016) ‘A survey on human machine dialogue systems’, in Proc … on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED …

Neural multimodal belief tracker with adaptive attention for dialogue systems
Z Zhang, L Liao, M Huang, X Zhu… – The World Wide Web …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Dialogue Systems Zheng Zhang† Institute for Artificial Intelligence, State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing …

A mixed methods analysis of the adoption and diffusion of chatbot technology in the German insurance sector
D Rodríguez Cardona, O Werth, S Schönborn… – 2019 – aisel.aisnet.org
… Chatbots would rely to a large extent upon the ability of the dialog systems to digitalize … the survey, there is a lack of trust in the technology behind Chatbots (ie artificial intelligence) … “Conversational Interfaces for e-Commerce Applications.” Communications of the ACM (43:9), pp …

Conversational Help for Task Completion and Feature Discovery in Personal Assistants
MG Jhawar, V Vangala, N Sharma… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), IPAs have gained a lot of attention and found their … (2013) demonstrated a conversational interface that as … in navigating within urban environ- ments and acquiring tourist information by combining spoken dialogue system, question-answering …

A taxonomy of social cues for conversational agents
J Feine, U Gnewuch, S Morana, A Maedche – International Journal of …, 2019 – Elsevier

A Short Survey on Chatbot Technology: Failure in Raising the State of the Art
C ALGORITMI – Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence …, 2019 – books.google.com
… S., Malatini, S., Bogliolo, A.: The rise of bots: a survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and … N., Chen, P., Zhou, M., Zhou, J., Li, Z.: Building task-oriented dialogue systems for online … In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 …

EMERGENCY PATIENT CARE SYSTEM USING CHATBOT
P Raj, R Murali Krishna, SM Krishna, KH Vardhan… – ijtre.com
… customer service or information acquisition, chatbot is being used in the dialogue system … language of Pascal and Java[5]. Paper uses artificial intelligence to predict … to-end, build-once deploy- everywhere development suite for creating conversational interfaces for applications …

Explaining Content-based Recommendations with Topic Models
GP Polleti, FG Cozman – 2019 8th Brazilian Conference on …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… reinforcement learning spoken Most Dissimilar 11 a multi-modal dialog system for a … interactive concierge for independent living 15 7th mexican international conference on artificial intelligence … the user profile item the topics “health” and “conversational interface”, what answers …

Automatic Speech Recognition: Do Emotions Matter?
F Catania, P Crovari, M Spitale… – 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… A conversational agent (CA) is any dialogue system able to interact with a human through … Indeed, the rapid and continuous improvements in the field of Artificial intelligence (AI) are … If yes, this limitation should be considered when developing conversational interfaces in order to …

Topic-Specific Natural Language Chatbot as General Advisor for College
V Patil, Y Chaudhari, H Rohila… – … Machine Learning for …, 2019 – books.google.com
… The design semantics includes artificial intelligence mark-up language (AIML) specification language for … 1] Chai and J. Lin,” The role of natural language conversational interface in online … K. Zadrozny and W. Melville, ” Natural Language Assistant: a dialogue system for online …

Measuring service encounter satisfaction with customer service chatbots using sentiment analysis
J Feine, S Morana, U Gnewuch – 2019 – aisel.aisnet.org
… rich resources on the Internet (eg, online reviews) and advances in artificial intelligence [17] … Portsmouth, UK (2018) 4. McTear, M., Callejas, Z., Griol, D.: The Conversational Interface … J.: The Good, the Bad and the Neutral: Affective Profile in Dialog System-User Communication …

Conversational agents in the treatment of mental health problems: Mixed-method systematic review
H Gaffney, W Mansell, S Tai – JMIR mental health, 2019 – mental.jmir.org
… Introduction. Rationale. Conversational agents are software programs that use artificial intelligence to simulate a conversation with a user through written text or voice. Recent everyday examples include digital assistants such …

An Architecture for Dynamic Conversational Agents for Citizen Participation and Ideation
S Ahmed – researchgate.net
… x Page 12. Acronyms AI Artificial Intelligence. API Application Programming Interface. DB Database … and Facebook Messenger, Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa). This move allows them to leverage the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing …

An Improved Approach of Intention Discovery with Machine Learning for POMDP-based Dialogue Management
RR Raval – 2019 – scholar.uwindsor.ca
… RL: Reinforcement Learning SDS: Spoken Dialogue Systems SLP: Structured Language Processing SOTA: State-Of-The-Art … Page 24. 1 Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Motivation In the world of Natural Stupidity, we need an Artificial Intelligence, therefore we require a …

Participatory Design of Historytelling Voice Assistance with Older Adults
T Volkmann, M Sengpiel, R Karam… – … Conference on Information …, 2019 – Springer
… 4. Fig. 4. Basic system model of the dialogue system; based on [17]. 5 Evaluation … 11–20 (2000)Google Scholar. 4. Cassell, J.: Embodied conversational interface agents. Commun … Petherbridge, N.: Artificial intelligence scripting language (2019). https://www.rivescript.com. 29 …

Usability evaluation of spoken humanoid embodied conversational agents in mobile serious games
D Korre – 2019 – era.ed.ac.uk
… and emotions. Despite these theoretical advantages, according to recent studies, the interaction with spoken dialogue systems, either in the form of an embodied agent … NLI: natural language interaction AI: artificial intelligence VDA: virtual digital assistants …

Usability of Chatbots: A Systematic Mapping Study.
R Ren, JW Castro, ST Acuña, J de Lara – SEKE, 2019 – miso.es
… has intelligence [9]. Weizenbaum’s development of ELIZA at MIT in the 60s can be considered the first dialogue system [1]. Lately, the … “The rise of bots: A survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and … International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 24(1), pp.62-91 …

Towards the Learning, Perception, and Effectiveness of Teachable Conversational Agents
N Chhibber – 2019 – uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… 19 3.3.1 Why a Conversational Interface … 19 3.3.2 Dialog System … xii Page 13. Chapter 1 Introduction Recent progress in artificial intelligence has resulted in the development of intelligent agents that can direct their activities towards achieving a goal …

Ascertain Quality Attributes for Design and Development of New Improved Chatbots to Assess Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI): A Preliminary Study
NM Johari, HB Zaman, PNE Nohuddin – International Visual Informatics …, 2019 – Springer
… they are designed with or without conversations, Chatbots in organisations, are normally used in dialog systems for various … McCarth, JJ, Stanford University: What is Artificial Intelligence … Mielke, C., Smashing Magazine: Conversational interfaces: Where are we heading …

Smart Home Appliances: Chat with Your Fridge
D Gudovskiy, G Han, T Yamaguchi… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 – arxiv.org
… DNNs) already make feasible some elements of the highly-anticipated general artificial intelligence (AI … In contrast, we propose a dialogue system where users can ask more sophisticated … A general concept of the proposed conversational interface with smart home appliances is …

Intelligent Conversational Agent Assisted Health Coaching System: The CoachAI Approach
A Fadhil – researchgate.net
… 19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], fully manual (eg, commands are provided and tracked by a human, with no artificial intelligence involved) [25 … With the rise of deep learning and increased computing power, it became possible to build complex domain dependent dialogue systems …

Semantic analysis of voice messages based on a formalized context
V Zahariev, T Lyahor, N Hubarevich, E Azarov – 2019 – proc.ostis.net
… for Consumer Devices and Services: Pushing the limits for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer … [3] Schmitt, A. Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems./ A. Schmitt … M. Wolfgang.–Springer, 2012.–251 p. [4] MacTear, M. The Conversational Interface: Talking to …

Universal Semantic Web Assistant based on Sequence to Sequence Model and Natural Language Understanding
SV Prajwal, G Mamatha, P Ravi… – 2019 9th International …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… However, Pattern matching is still used for general purpose interaction by the user using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML … This incorporates multi- dialog system models which are able to integrate the messages with video, video with text … conversational interface …

In bot we trust: A new methodology of chatbot performance measures
A Przegalinska, L Ciechanowski, A Stroz, P Gloor… – Business Horizons, 2019 – Elsevier
… Amazon launched the Alexa (Hayes, 2017) project as a platform for a better jukebox but the company developed it into an artificial intelligence system built upon and … Through a conversational interface, brands transform themselves into personal shopping assistants …

KnowBots: discovering relevant patterns in chatbot dialogues
A Rivolli, C Amaral, L Guardão, CR de Sá… – … Conference on Discovery …, 2019 – Springer
… The latter uses artificial intelligence concepts to simulate a human-based behavior, which supposedly covers a broad … Google Scholar. 2. Chai, JY, et al.: The role of a natural language conversational interface in online … comparison of eliza with modern dialogue systems. Comput …

Memory-to-Sequence learning with LSTM joint decoding for task-oriented dialogue systems
B Yu, F Ren, Y Bao – 2019 14th IEEE Conference on Industrial …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… [2] JD Williams and S. Young, “Partially observable markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems,” Computer Speech & Language, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 393-422. [3] VW Zue and JR Glass, “Conversational interfaces: Advances and challenges,” in Proceedings …

CBET: design and evaluation of a domain-specific chatbot for mobile learning
Q Liu, J Huang, L Wu, K Zhu, S Ba – Universal Access in the Information …, 2019 – Springer
… Meanwhile, chatbots as an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that allows humans to inter- act with machines in a manner similar to how … Typically, chatbots based on deep learning, which are also known as generative dialog systems, are found on a large amount of utterance …

Learning from Others’ Experience
S Höhn – Artificial Companion for Second Language …, 2019 – Springer
… Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Con- versation Analysis … to obtain models for human-robot communica- tion and dialogue systems from naturally … With the recent popularisation of chatbots and conversational interfaces driven by …

Setting the Scene
S Höhn – Artificial Companion for Second Language …, 2019 – Springer
… conversation is seen as one of the key features of such a dialogue system or a … research, Natural Language Processing, Dialogue Modelling, the impact of Conversation Analysis on Artificial Intelligence, and last but not least, chatbots and conversational interfaces, their use …

The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges
L Clark, P Doyle, D Garaialde, E Gilmartin… – Interacting with …, 2019 – academic.oup.com
AbstractSpeech interfaces are growing in popularity. Through a review of 99 research papers this work maps the trends, themes, findings and methods of empirical.

Evaluating Temporal Predictive Features for Virtual Patients Feedbacks
BE Penteado, M Ochs, R Bertrand… – Proceedings of the 19th …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… CCS CONCEPTS • Computing methodologies ? Artificial intelligence; Intelli- gent agents; Feature selection … 1999. Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea (CHI ’99) … 2014. Data-driven models for timing feedback responses in a Map Task dialogue system …

Implementation of an Artificial Conversation Companion
S Höhn – Artificial Companion for Second Language …, 2019 – Springer
… An additional component can be used for the recognition of learner errors in order to provide corrections. Several open-source chatbots based on the Artificial Intelligence Markup Lan- guage (AIML) are available for many languages and meet the selection criteria …

Future Research Directions
S Höhn – Artificial Companion for Second Language …, 2019 – Springer
… NLU services are usually involved in the implemen- tation of conversational interfaces and chatbots … be what a CA-informed approach to using neural networks for dialogue systems might look … transfer the concept of interaction profiles into the field of Artificial Intelligence (Höhn et …

Exploring Pervasive Making Using Generative Modeling and Speech Input
R Ballagas, J Wei, M Vankipuram, Z Li… – IEEE Pervasive …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper, we explore a human-centered approach for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to … You try on one of the samples from the rack, and a conversational interface asks you … J. Miller, and G. Zweig, “Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft …

Cognitive architecture of multimodal multidimensional dialogue management
A Malchanau – 2019 – scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de
… This challenges the dialogue system designs based on a reactive interlocutor paradigm and calls for dialog systems that can be char- acterised as a proactive learner, accomplished multitasking planner and adaptive decision maker … 39 2.5.8 End-to-end dialogue systems …

When Chatbots meet patients: one-year prospective study of conversations between patients with breast cancer and a Chatbot
B Chaix, JE Bibault, A Pienkowski, G Delamon… – Jmir …, 2019 – cancer.jmir.org
Patient-Centered Innovations, Education and Technology for Cancer Care and Cancer Research.

A Wizard-of-Oz experiment to study phonetic accommodation in human-computer interaction
I Gessinger, B Möbius, N Fakhar, E Raveh… – International Congress of …, 2019 – assta.org
… Saarland University, Germany 3German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH … accommodate to the speech output of spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) and … To- ward adaptive conversational interfaces: Modeling speech convergence with animated personas …

The next generation: chatbots in clinical psychology and psychotherapy to foster mental health–a scoping review
E Bendig, B Erb, L Schulze-Thuesing… – Verhaltenstherapie, 2019 – karger.com
… The Federal Ministry of Education and Re- search has declared artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the key technologies of the future … literature as conversational agents or chatbots) and chatbots that use nat- ural-language, speech-based interfaces in dialogue systems (such as …

Exploring virtual agents for augmented reality
I Wang, J Smith, J Ruiz – Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… presence. Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) [17] have risen as a natural extension of dialogue systems, enriching the experience through a virtual avatar and adding a social aspect to the interaction [49,54]. Despite …

Chatbots for Enterprises: Outlook
P Kostelník, I Pisa?ovic, M Muro?, F Da?ena… – Acta Universitatis …, 2019 – acta.mendelu.cz
… interaction. They provide a new type of user interface (conversational interface) as a service. This … 1950). Mauldin (1994) used term Chatter-Bot as the name for any dialog system capable of having informal conversations. One …

AI Love You
Y Zhou, MH Fischer – 2019 – Springer
… focus on the production process of software and knowledge of contemporary tools underlying smart conversational interfaces informs his … focusses on digitalized sexuality and communication with artificial entities (eg, in terms of dialogue systems and artificial intelligence) …

A scoping review of patient-facing, behavioral health interventions with voice assistant technology targeting self-management and healthy lifestyle behaviors
E Sezgin, L Militello, Y Huang, S Lin – 2019 – papers.ssrn.com
… We define voice assistants as an inanimate object programmed with some type of artificial intelligence capable of two-way … determine the effectiveness of interactive voice response (ie automated dialogue systems operated over …

Lia: A virtual assistant that can be taught new commands by speech
M Chkroun, A Azaria – International Journal of Human–Computer …, 2019 – Taylor & Francis
… project starting in 2003 (Mark & Perrault, 2004) and is based on many years of research in the dialog system community (Wahlster & … an attempt to mitigate this issue and reduce the required learning curve we intend to implement a conversational interface (Klopfenstein, Delpriori …

Towards cognitive systems for assisted cooperative processes of goal finding and strategy change
A Wendemuth, S Kopp – 2019 IEEE International Conference …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Target system abilities thus include not only physical interaction but also conversational interfaces … First approaches to this exist in the field of dialogue systems and conversational agents [31]. VII … Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 17, 1 (2002), 83–135 …

Software platforms and toolkits for building multimodal systems and applications
M Feld, R Ne?elrath, T Schwartz – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Page 2. 146 Chapter 4 Software Platforms and Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems and Applications A dialogue system is a software agent that allows users to converse with a ma- chine in a coherent structure … Page 3. 4.3 Architecture of Dialogue Systems 147 …

Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems and Applications
M Feld, R Ne?selrath – The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor …, 2019 – books.google.com
… Page 172. 146 Chapter 4 Software Platforms and Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems and Applications 4.3 A dialogue system is a software agent that allows users to converse with a ma- chine in a coherent structure … Page 175. 4.3 Architecture of Dialogue Systems 149 4.3 …

4Software Platforms and Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems
M Feld, R Neßelrath, T Schwartz – The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor … – dl.acm.org
… 146 Chapter 4 Software Platforms and Toolkits for Building Multimodal Systems and Applications A dialogue system is a software agent that allows users to converse with a ma- chine in a coherent structure … 4.3 Architecture of Dialogue Systems 149 express some information …

A Comic-Style Chat System with Japanese Expression Techniques for More Expressive Communication
J Itou, K Matsumura, J Munemori… – … on Collaboration and …, 2019 – Springer
… The characters used in graphical dialog systems act as agents for users, to express their moods and … 1. Cassell, J., et al.: Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea, CHI-99, pp … In: Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001), pp …

It’s How You Say It: Identifying Appropriate Register for Chatbot Language Design
AP Chaves, E Doerry, J Egbert, M Gerosa – Proceedings of the 7th …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… https://doi.org/10.1145/3349537.3351901 1 INTRODUCTION Advances in conversational interfaces have helped to popularize chatbots [38], which are disembodied conversational interfaces that interact with end-users in natural language via text interfaces …

An Industrial Application of Soft Computing for the Design of Personalized Call Centers
D Griol, JM Molina, A Sanchis – … Workshop on Soft Computing Models in …, 2019 – Springer
… The various kinds of cognitive and reactive Artificial Intelligence provided by SC make industrial … M., Lefevre, F., Pietquin, O.: Clustering behaviors of spoken dialogue systems users … CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 5. McTear, MF, Callejas, Z., Griol, D.: The Conversational Interface …

Designing for Trust
M Dagli – 2019 – kilthub.cmu.edu
… To provide a more personal experience, increasing number of businesses are developing virtual agents with conversational interfaces by … agents, also known as dialog systems. It is estimated that more than … assistants, virtual companions, avatars, ‘artificial intelligence’ or …

Conversational Agent for Health Coaching
A JUMAAH – 2019 – researchgate.net
… ACM, 2017. 3. Fadhil, A., Schiavo, G., Wang, Y., & Yilma, BA (2018, May). The Effect of Emojis when interacting with Conversational Interface Assisted Health Coaching System. In Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing …

Text and voice-enabled chatbot enhancing the user experience in career counselling domain
A Banerjee – 2019 – esource.dbs.ie
… Page 20. 20 2.2 Speech-to-Text Technology has advanced ten folds in the area of speech recognition intertwining our lives closer to spoken dialogue systems, such as chatbots … 2.3 AIML AIML stands for Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is basically the most well-known …

Multi-device digital assistance
RW White, A Fourney, A Herring, PN Bennett… – Communications of the …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… the experi- ence to establish and maintain session state, apply artificial intelligence (for example … assistant would manage and leverage multi-modal input/output and conversational interfaces to cre … 7. Pardal JP and Mamede NJ Starting to cook a coaching dialogue system in the …

New approach for conversational agent definition by non-programmers: a visual domain-specific language
L Rodríguez-Gil, J García-Zubia, P Orduña… – IEEE …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The current proposed version focuses on being able to produce predictable, known and controlled output, without requiring data sets. It does not aim for the agents to be particularly powerful from an Artificial Intelligence point of view, but aims for simplicity instead …

Human-robot dialogue and Collaboration for social navigation in crowded environments
C Lobato, A Vega-Magro, P Núñez… – 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… is a Google tool for building engaging voice and text-based conversational interfaces based on … an acceptable human-robot interaction, the proposed system uses an standard dialogue system archi … In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011 …

NLP-based chatbot for HAMK
D Trifunovic – 2019 – theseus.fi
… ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence and conversational agents have become increasingly important in recent years due to technological progress … Keywords Artificial Intelligence, Chatbot, Machine Learning, NLP, Rasa Pages 102 pages including appendices 21 pages Page 3 …

Chatbots, will they ever be ready? Pragmatic shortcomings in communication with chatbots
S TONTS – 2019 – politesi.polimi.it
… Yet, modern advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, as well as the popularity of Instant Messaging platforms, have … The relevance of the field is described in a more thorough way. Therefore, conversational interfaces, especially …

Kinda Human: Enhancing Expression and Understanding in an Intimate Relationship Through Artificial Agents
S Dombkowski – kilthub.cmu.edu
… In order to answer this question, I studied the evolving landscape of artificial agents and artificial intelligence by looking into early conversational interfaces (ie, Musicolour and The Coordinator) and how each represents “an intelligent interface” (Kaplan, 2013). Definition Phase …

Show, Price and Negotiate: A Hierarchical Attention Recurrent Visual Negotiator
A Parvaneh, E Abbasnejad, Q Wu, J Shi – arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03721, 2019 – arxiv.org
… Keywords visual negotiation, goal-oriented dialogue system, deep recurrent neural networks, attention mechanism 1 Introduction Negotiation is an integral part of the human interactions that the true artificial intelligence must possess the capability for …

Chatbot Components and Architectures
B Galitsky – Developing Enterprise Chatbots, 2019 – Springer
… 2.1.1 Definitions. A chatbot (conversational agent, dialogue system) is a computer system that operates as an interface between human users and a software application, using spoken or written natural language as the primary means of communication …

How should my chatbot interact? A survey on human-chatbot interaction design
AP Chaves, MA Gerosa – arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02743, 2019 – arxiv.org
… that includes the synonyms chatbots, chatterbots, conversational agents, conversational interfaces, conversational systems, conversation systems, dialogue systems, digital assistants … interactive systems (8 papers), virtual agents (5 papers), artificial intelligence (3 papers …

Keyword Retrieval-Based Korean Text Command System Using Morphological Analyzer
DG Park, WB Lee – Journal of the Korea Convergence Society, 2019 – koreascience.or.kr
… Effects of Anthropomorphic Conversational Interface for Smart Home:An Experimental Study on the … Analysis of promising technologies based on artificial intelligence through patent search … mass knowledge ac-quisition using the ALICE chatterbot: the AZ-ALICE dialog system …

Designing a Sustainable Virtual Assistant
CH Low – 2019 – ntnuopen.ntnu.no
… conversational interface, mobile assistant, voice assistant, conversational technology or chatbots (McTear, Callejas and Griol, 2016) … With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, numerous significant inventions such as self … dialogue system …

Phantom Friend or Just a Box with Information Personification and Ontological Categorization of Smart Speaker-based Voice Assistants by Older Adults
A Pradhan, L Findlater, A Lazar – Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… Some researchers have argued that voice or spoken dialogue systems play a role in anthropomorphizing technology [11], whereas … previous theoretical frameworks on anthropomorphism in general, as well as the implications for designing conversational interfaces …

Response Retrieval in Information-seeking Conversations
L Yang – 2019 – scholarworks.umass.edu
… Part of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons, and the Databases and Information Systems Commons … On the other hand, voice-based / text- based conversational interfaces are becoming increasing popular as shown in the wide …

Implementation and evaluation of a shopping assistance chatbot in an e-commerce case
T Böger – 2019 – run.unl.pt
… Both disciplines belong to the research area of artificial intelligence since they are strongly connected to the … They are sometimes referred to as “chatterbots”, “intelligent agents”, “conversational agents”, “conversational interfaces”, or “dialogue systems” (Chai, Budzikowska …

A survey on construction and enhancement methods in service chatbots design
Z Peng, X Ma – CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and …, 2019 – Springer
… ALICE applies the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and is primarily designed for historical and philosophical ruminations on human consciousness … These chatbots are also known as modular task-oriented dialog systems, which guide a user to finish some well …

This is the author’s version of a work that was published in the following source
J Feine, U Gnewuch, S Morana, A Maedche – 2019 – researchgate.net
… Recent technological advances in artificial intelligence have led to great interest by organizations in using CAs to support users in … In the 1980s, this was followed by the appearance of voice-based dialog systems, voice user …

Nonverbal behavior in multimodal performances
A Cafaro, C Pelachaud, SC Marsella – The Handbook of Multimodal …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. 6Nonverbal Behavior in Multimodal Performances Angelo Cafaro, Catherine Pelachaud, Stacy C. Marsella 6.1 Introduction The physical, nonverbal behaviors that accompany face-to-face interaction convey a wide variety …

A STUDY ON USERS’DISCOVERY PROCESS OF AMAZON ECHO DOT’S CAPABILITIES
L Zhang – 2019 – hammer.figshare.com
… and even able to solve problems by its own (Ferguson & Allen, 1998). Along the journey of making spoken dialogue systems more intelligent, many new … Intelligence Mark-up Language (AIML) (Shawar & Atwell, 2007). AIML has different …

Virtual humans: Today and tomorrow
D Burden, M Savin-Baden – 2019 – books.google.com
… 137 REFERENCES 138 chapter 7 ? Embodiment 143 INTRODUCTION 143 FROM SYMBOLIC TO EMBODIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 144 EMBODIMENT … Figure 13.3 The key mind processes of a virtual human Kismet robot Research on dialogue systems for language …

Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation
S Höhn – 2019 – Springer
… I hope that this book starts a movement bringing together researchers from the two worlds, Dialogue Processing and Conversation Analysis, in order to build better dialogue systems and, finally, better understand ourselves when we are talking. Overview of the book …

A chatbot for the banking domain
P Schmidtová – 2019 – dspace.cuni.cz
… Chatbota hodnot?me za pomoci lidských testeru, overujeme, ze ve vetšine pr?padu je schopen plnit své úlohy, a identifikujeme mozná budouc? vylepšen?. Keywords: dialog system, natural language understanding, NLP, chatbot, dialog manager … 1.1 Dialog Systems in General …

Co-designing a chatbot for and with refugees and migrants
Z Chen – 2019 – aaltodoc.aalto.fi
… ²A subfield of computer science, information engineering, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions … ³A component of a dialog system, responsible for the state and flow of the … These artifacts will define a conversational interface for the first pilot chatbot in the …

How affordances of chatbots cross the chasm between social and traditional enterprise systems
E Stoeckli, C Dremel, F Uebernickel, W Brenner – Electronic Markets, 2019 – Springer
… 2011), chatterbot (Mauldin 1994), and dialogue system (Litman and Pan 2002 … However, “whether you call these things digital assistants, conversational interfaces or just chatbots … In particular, the capabilities of information technology, precise- ly artificial intelligence and machine …

Socio-Cognitive Engineering of a Robotic Partner for Child’s Diabetes Self-Management
MA Neerincx, W van Vught, OB Henkemans… – Frontiers in Robotics …, 2019 – rifca.nl
… address the technological progress on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Conversational Agents and Connectivity, with their capabilities to transform social processes and human-technology relationships, SCE toke a more principled focus on human- agent/robot teamwork and …

Developing an intelligent assistant for the audit plan brainstorming session
Q Li – 2019 – rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu
… limitations. Large audit firms have been investing in substantive resources to the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to take advantage of their past audit experience and industry … 2008). There has been a trend that of audit firms start to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) …

Cognitive Computing Recipes
A Masood, A Hashmi – Springer
Page 1. Cognitive Computing Recipes Artificial Intelligence Solutions Using Microsoft Cognitive Services and TensorFlow … Page 2. Cognitive Computing Recipes Artificial Intelligence Solutions Using Microsoft Cognitive Services and TensorFlow Adnan Masood Adnan Hashmi …

Experimental study of socio chatbot usability
R Ren – 2019 – repositorio.uam.es
… component that are involved in almost every industry [1]. Considering the statistic from Gartner, artificial intelligence will amount … The conversational agent is recognized as a class of dialog systems [38], it generally fall into two … [22] surveys conversational interfaces, patterns, and …

Embodiment in socially interactive robots
E Deng, B Mutlu, M Mataric – arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00312, 2019 – arxiv.org
… physically embodied. We are witnessing parallel and synergistic growth of the core technologies of artificial intelligence, computing, and manufacturing, all facilitating the development of interactive artificial agents. Researchers …

How to Survive a Robot Invasion: Rights, Responsibility, and AI
DJ Gunkel – 2019 – books.google.com
… purposefully act on or in that environment; 2. An embodied artificial intelligence; or 3. A machine that … the results, and to supply a friendly (or at least efficient) conversational interface to the … significant portion of this work can be performed by a speech dialogue system (SDS), like …

Influencing Leading and Following in Human-Robot Teams.
M Kwon, M Li, A Bucquet, D Sadigh – Robotics: Science and …, 2019 – iliad.stanford.edu
Page 1. Influencing Leading and Following in Human-Robot Teams Minae Kwon? Stanford University Mengxi Li? Stanford University Alexandre Bucquet Stanford University Dorsa Sadigh Stanford University Abstract—Recent …

Investigating the Automation of Self-Help Therapies by means of Visual Tooling
GJ Kolkman – 2019 – dspace.library.uu.nl
… Many names for these digital agents have been suggested: conver- sational agents, conversational interfaces, chatbots, bots, conversational experi- ences … of very simple pattern matching, ALICE took it a step further and made use of the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language …

BACHELORS THESIS
ME Adam – 2019 – researchgate.net
… AI Artificial Intelligence … Chatbots can be defined as ”any software application that engages in a (text-based) dialogue with a human using natural language” [Dal16]; they are further known as: conversational dialogue systems, chatterbots, chat robots, or conversational agents …

TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SERVICE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF A CHATBOT
H Meerschman, J Verkeyn – lib.ugent.be
… FIGURE 1: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLASSES OF SOFTWARE-BASED DIALOG SYSTEMS (RADZIWILL & … the first chatbot, Eliza, came to life at the MIT Artificial Intelligence … misconception: “Whether you call these things digital assistants, conversational interfaces or just …

Social Media and Chatbots use for chronic disease patients support: case study from an online community regarding therapeutic use of cannabis
AR Teixeira – 2019 – repositorio-aberto.up.pt
Page 1. MESTRADO MULTIMÉDIA – ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM TECNOLOGIA Social Media and Chatbots use for chronic disease patients support: case study from an online community regarding therapeutic use of cannabis Alice Rangel Teixeira M 2019 …

Human-Robot Plan Communication Strategies
R Rajaa, L Alarifi, W Bond, MC Silaghi – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… robot Jijo-2 that can ask people for help via the spoken- dialogue system to learn … and Thrun, S., “Experiences with an interactive museum tour-guide robot,” Artificial intelligence, vol … L., Chang, K., Vilhjálmsson, H., and Yan, H., “Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea,” in …

Text Summarization for Chatbots
M Lustig – 2019 – support.dce.felk.cvut.cz
… Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language processing made pos- sible by … The area of dialogue systems development resembles more an alchemy than a strict … formerly API.AI), a tool for creating voice and conversational interfaces [9]. Description of …

Building Chatbots with Python
S Raj, S Raj, Karkal – 2019 – Springer
… 121 Understanding More on Rasa Core and Dialog System ….. 122 … xiii About the Technical Reviewer Nitin Solanki has extensive experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot development …

Ai & Quantum Computing For Finance & Insurance: Fortunes And Challenges For China And America
LDK Chuen, S Paul – 2019 – books.google.com
… The series covers several increasingly important new areas such as the fourth industrial revolution, Inter- net of Things (IoT), blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and many other forces of disruption and breakthroughs that shape today’s realities of the economy …

A study of channels of communication in the field of After-sales service
L Laboureau – 2019 – esource.dbs.ie
… would reside specifically on conversation and conversational interfaces based on chatbots … human language with the aid of a text-based dialogue system ” (Darius Zumstein et al, 2018, p98). Due to last innovations in terms of natural language and artificial intelligence, this …

Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy
B Certified, COS Kernels – Communications of the ACM, 2019 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy Closing in on Quantum Error Correction Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels Consumer-Grade Fabrication to Revolutionize Accessibility COMMUNICATIONS OF THEACM CACM.ACM.ORG 10/2019 VOL.62 NO.10 …

The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth
P Cerrato, J Halamka – 2019 – books.google.com
… CONTENTS About the Authors xi Preface xiii 1. Innovations in mHealth, Part 1: The Role of Blockchain, Conversational Interfaces, and Chatbots 1 Blockchain 2 System Architecture for MedRec 5 Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Digital Assistants 7 Intelligent Virtual Agents 10 …

From user feedback to requirements using chatbots
D Horváth – 2019 – dspace.library.uu.nl
Page 1. From user feedback to requirements using chatbots Master Thesis Danny Horvath – 6253733 Graduate School of Natural Science Master Business Informatics Supervisors: Dr. Fabiano Dalpiaz Dr. Sergio Espana Cubillo 1.0 version Utrecht, November 2019 Page 2 …