Notes:
The KomParse project was a research project that aimed to integrate advanced natural language processing technologies into Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) through a three-year grant from the ProFIT programe of the Investitionsbank Berlin and co-funded by the European Union. The project was led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) and involved partnerships with companies in the Berlin computer game industry to ensure that the solutions, evaluation criteria and technological results comply with the requirements and demands of commercial applications.
The main focus of the project was to improve the naturalness of NPCs (Non-Player Characters) in these games, as these characters were controlled by the game and not by a human player. To achieve this, the project aimed to equip NPCs with limited but adequate and robust linguistic capabilities that allow for naturalness in interactions and whose efficiency satisfies the real-time requirements of interactive applications, making the NPCs’ dialogue ability a core competence.
Resources:
- embots.dfki.de .. dfki embodied agents research group
- heartofgold.dfki.de .. middleware architecture for the integration of natural language processing
- komparse.dfki.de .. integration of natural language processing into multiplayer games
- talkingrobots.dfki.de .. talking robots group at the dfki language technology lab
- zas.gwz-berlin.de .. leibniz-zentrum allgemeine sprachwissenschaft (center for general linguistics – zas)
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References:
See also:
Behavior Realizers | DFKI SmartKom | EMBR (Embodied Agents Behavior Realizer) | INSCAPE (Interactive Storytelling for Creative People) | MaryTTS (MARY Text-to-Speech System) | Non-Player Character & Dialog Systems | PIAVCA (Platform Independent API for Virtual Characters and Avatars) | Virtual Human Toolkit
Evaluation of the KomParse Conversational Non-Player Characters in a Commercial Virtual World.
T Klüwer, F Xu, P Adolphs, H Uszkoreit – LREC, 2012 – lrec-conf.org
The paper describes the evaluation of the KomParse system. KomParse is a dialogue system embedded in a 3-D massive multiplayer online game, allowing conversations between non player characters (NPCs) and game users. In a field test with game users, the …
A decision-theoretic approach to finding optimal responses to over-constrained queries in a conceptual search space
A Benz, N Bertomeu, A Strekalova – Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on …, 2011 – Citeseer
A decision-theoretic approach to finding optimal responses to over-constrained queries in a conceptual search space Anton Benz and Nuria Bertomeu and Alexandra Strekalova KomParse Project? Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Schützenstrasse 18, 10117 Berlin …
Talking NPCs in a virtual game world
T Klüwer, P Adolphs, F Xu, H Uszkoreit… – Proceedings of the ACL …, 2010 – dl.acm.org
… This paper describes the KomParse sys- tem, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity … The KomParse system, described in this paper, provides NPCs for a virtual online world named Twinity, a product of the Berlin startup company …
An OWL Ontology for Biographical Knowledge. Representing Time-Dependent Factual Knowledge.
HU Krieger, T Declerck – BD, 2015 – ceur-ws.org
… In this section, we present the schema (the TBox and the RBox) of an ontology that we had developed origi- nally for the TAKE project (http://take.dfki.de) and that was used in the KOMPARSE project (http://komparse.dfki.de) to represent biographical information about …
Extracting aspects of determiner meaning from dialogue in a virtual world environment
H Reckman, J Orkin, D Roy – … of the Ninth International Conference on …, 2011 – dl.acm.org
… collecting a large image-labeling corpus. 245 Page 2. that have not been collected specifically for this purpose. A related project is KomParse (Klüwer et al., 2010). Piantadosi et al. (2008) developed a Bayesian model that learns …
RMRSBot–using linguistic information to enrich a chatbot
T Klüwer – International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2009 – Springer
… Acknowledgements. The work presented here was supported by the project KomParse funded by the ProFIT programme of the Federal State of Berlin and the EFRE programme of the European Union. Many thanks go to the project members. References …
Using syntactic and semantic based relations for dialogue act recognition
T Klüwer, H Uszkoreit, F Xu – … of the 23rd international conference on …, 2010 – dl.acm.org
… The work presented in this paper is part of a dialogue system called KomParse (Klüwer et al., 2010), which is an application of a NL dialogue system combined with various question answering technologies in a three-dimensional virtual world named Twinity, a web-based …
Conversational Structured Hybrid 3D Virtual Environments
P Almajano, E Mayas, I Rodriguez… – Proceedings of the XV …, 2014 – dl.acm.org
… In the line of 3D virtual environments, KomParse [7] im- plements a barkeeper as a conversational 3D character in a commercial 3D massive multi-player on-line game … Evaluation of the komparse conversational non-player characters in a commercial virtual world …
Gossip galore: An embodied conversational agent for collecting and sharing pop trivia from the web
F Xu, P Adolphs, H Uszkoreit, X Cheng, H Li – International Conference on …, 2009 – Springer
… artificial companions by combining natural language processing, question answering, web-based information extraction, semantic web technology and interaction-driven profiling with cognitive modelling [4]. This work is further supported by the project KomParse, which is …
Gossip Galore
F Xu, P Adolphs, H Uszkoreit, X Cheng, H Li – researchgate.net
… This work is further supported by the project KomParse, which is devoted to equipping non- player characters in computer games with dialogue capacities. In the realized system, the RASCALLI agents as- sist users in extracting information from the web and other resources …
Majubs Reise—From Colony to Concentration Camp. A New Approach at Narrating Germany’s Colonial Past?
J Warmbold – Colloquia Germanica, 2015 – JSTOR
… Why, my studen asked, does Knopf not even attempt to go beyond the obvious and ask for sible motives of her protagonist’s behavior? Perhaps as “schwarzer Lieblin komparse der Nazis” (Denk) Husen did not have any other choice? What ab his family life …
Publications of last four years
G Rehm, H Uszkoreit, I Dagan, V Goetcherian… – coli.uni-saarland.de
… Tina Klüwer, Feiyu Xu, Peter Adolphs, Hans Uszkoreit Evaluation of the KomParse Conversational Non-Player Characters in a Commercial Virtual World Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, N/A, 2012 …
Determining the Origin and Structure of Person Names.
Y Fu, F Xu, H Uszkoreit – LREC, 2010 – lrec.elra.info
… The work presented here was partially supported by a grant to the project KomParse by the ProFIT programme of the Federal State of Berlin, co-financed by the European Union through the EFRE fund (Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung / European Regional …
Situated Production and Understanding of Verbal References to Entities in Large-Scale Space
H Zender – 2011 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… Christopher, Fai, Weijia, and all the others. … my office mates Henrik J and Christian – it’s been a pleasure! … the KomParse team at DFKI Berlin Peter, Tina, Feiyu, Xiwen, Torsten. … Patric, Dani, Jeanna, Kristoffer, Andrzej, Alper, and …
A Dialogue System for Conversational NPCs
T Klüwer, P Adolphs, F Xu, H Uszkoreit – Proceedings of the Paralinguistic …, 2011 – Springer
… Acknowledgements The system described in this paper is a result of the project “KomParse”, funded by the ProFIT program of the Federal State of Berlin and the EFRE program of the Euro- pean Union. Many thanks go to our project partners. References …
Assisted Hybrid Structured 3D Virtual Environments
P Almajano – 2014 – diposit.ub.edu
Page 1. Assisted Hybrid Structured 3D Virtual Environments Pablo Almajano Aquesta tesi doctoral està subjecta a la llicència Reconeixement- NoComercial – CompartirIgual 3.0. Espanya de Creative Commons. Esta tesis doctoral …
Social talk capabilities for dialogue systems
T Klüwer – 2015 – universaar.uni-saarland.de
… 47 2.6 Conclusion . . . . . 48 3 The KomParse Application 51 3.1 Introduction … 151 9 Evaluation 153 9.1 KomParse Usability Evaluation . . . . . 154 9.1.1 Evaluation Design …
Yago-qa: Answering questions by structured knowledge queries
P Adolphs, M Theobald, U Schafer… – … (ICSC), 2011 Fifth …, 2011 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank the DFG Cluster of Excellence on Mul- timodal Computing and Interaction (M2CI); project TAKE, funded under contract 01IW08003 by the German Fed- eral Ministry of Education and Research; project KomParse, funded under contract …
Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web.
P Adolphs, X Cheng, T Klüwer, H Uszkoreit, F Xu – LREC, 2010 – lrec-conf.org
… The work presented here was partially supported by the in- ternational project RASCALLI, funded by the Sixth Frame- work Programme of the European Commission in the area of Cognitive Systems (IST-27596-2004), by a grant to the project KomParse by the ProFIT …
“I Like Your Shirt”-Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents
T Klüwer – International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 – Springer
… Acknowledgments. The work presented in this paper is part of the project “KomParse”, funded by the ProFIT program of the Federal State of Berlin, co-funded by the EFRE program of the European Union. Page 13. 26 T. Klüwer References …
Analysis and improvement of minimally supervised machine learning for relation extraction
H Uszkoreit, F Xu, H Li – … Conference on Application of Natural Language …, 2009 – Springer
… The presented research was partially supported through the project TAKE funded by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Re- search (FKZ: 01IW08003) and through the project KomParse funded by the ProFIT programme of the Federal State of Berlin and …
Boosting relation extraction with limited closed-world knowledge
F Xu, H Uszkoreit, S Krause, H Li – Proceedings of the 23rd International …, 2010 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. Coling 2010: Poster Volume, pages 1354–1362, Beijing, August 2010 Boosting Relation Extraction with Limited Closed-World Knowledge Feiyu Xu Hans Uszkoreit Sebastian Krause Hong Li Language Technology …
A hierarchical reinforcement learning based artificial intelligence for non-player characters in video games
H Ponce, R Padilla – Mexican International Conference on Artificial …, 2014 – Springer
… battle. In: Game Developers Conference, San Francisco (2008) 7. Kluwer, T., Xu, F., Adolphs, P., Uszkoreit, H.: Evaluation of the komparse con- versational non-player characters in a commercial virtual world. In: International …
Dependency graphs as a generic interface between parsers and relation extraction rule learning
P Adolphs, F Xu, H Li, H Uszkoreit – Annual Conference on Artificial …, 2011 – Springer
… This research was conducted in the context of the DFG Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (M2CI), project KomParse (funded by the ProFIT program of the Federal State of Berlin and the EFRE program of the EU, contract 1014 0149), projects …
Conversational agents in a virtual world
P Adolphs, A Benz, NB Castelló, X Cheng… – Annual Conference on …, 2011 – Springer
… Acknowledgement. The research reported in this paper is supported from the project KomParse, funded by the ProFIT programme of the Federal State of Berlin, cofunded by the EFRE programme of the European Union. The …
Phonetic practices for action formation: Glottalization versus linking of TCU-initial vowels in German
BS Reed – Journal of Pragmatics, 2014 – Elsevier
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Glossary of Literary Terms-S
A Obermayer – Otago German Studies, 2016 – otagogermanstudies.otago.ac.nz
… be developed. STATIST?KOMPARSE STEGREIF (extempore, impromptu) = Extempore STEGREIFKOMÖDIE Improvised comedy as in the COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE. STEIGENDE HANDLUNG (rising action) Page 17. The part …
Learning relation extraction grammars with minimal human intervention: strategy, results, insights and plans
H Uszkoreit – International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing …, 2011 – Springer
Page 1. A. Gelbukh (Ed.): CICLing 2011, Part II, LNCS 6609, pp. 106–126, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 Learning Relation Extraction Grammars with Minimal Human Intervention: Strategy, Results, Insights and Plans Hans Uszkoreit …
Annotation of joint projects and information states in human-npc dialogues
N Bertomeu, A Benz – Proceedings of the First International Conference on …, 2009 – um.es
… The research reported in this paper has been conducted as part of the project KomPARSE, carried out in cooperation by the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) and the Deutsches Zentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) from June 2008 until June 2011 …
Light verb constructions in the SzegedParalellFX English-Hungarian parallel corpus
V Vincze – 2012 – publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu
Page 1. Papers Index SESSION O1 – Corpora for Machine Translation I˜naki San Vicente and Iker Manterola, PaCo2: A Fully Automated tool for gathering Parallel Corpora from the Web . . . . . 1 …
HunOr: A Hungarian-Russian Parallel Corpus
MK Szabó, V Vincze, TI Nagy – 2012 – publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu
Page 1. Papers Index SESSION O1 – Corpora for Machine Translation I˜naki San Vicente and Iker Manterola, PaCo2: A Fully Automated tool for gathering Parallel Corpora from the Web . . . . . 1 …
Papers Index
A Aker, E Kanoulas, R Gaizauskas – lrec.elra.info
Page 1. Papers Index SESSION O1 – Corpora for Machine Translation I˜naki San Vicente and Iker Manterola, PaCo2: A Fully Automated tool for gathering Parallel Corpora from the Web . . . . . 1 …
Power and trust in organizations
GM Multhaupt – 2012 – othes.univie.ac.at
Page 1. Diplomarbeit Titel der Diplomarbeit Power and Trust in Organizations: Testing a mediation model to analyze their effects on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Deviant Workplace Behavior Verfasser Gil Multhaupt Angestrebter akademischer Grad …