EHeBby: An evocative humorist chat-bot

Authors:
Giovanni Pilato;Agnese Augello;Giorgio Vassallo;Salvatore Gaglio
Affiliations:
(Correspd. E-mail: g.pilato@icar.cnr.it) ICAR-CNR Istituto di CAlcolo e Reti ad alte prestazioni, Italian National Research Council, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 11, 90128 Palermo, Italy;DINFO - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 6, 90128 Palermo, Italy;DINFO - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 6, 90128 Palermo, Italy;ICAR-CNR Istituto di CAlcolo e Reti ad alte prestazioni, Italian National Research Council, Palermo and DINFO - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, ...
Venue:
Mobile Information Systems - Information Assurance and Advanced Human-Computer Interfaces
Year:
2008

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Abstract

A conversational agent, capable to have a "sense of humor" is presented. The agent can both generate humorous sentences and recognize humoristic expressions introduced by the user during the dialogue. EHeBby is an entertainment oriented conversational agent implemented using the ALICE framework embedded into an Yahoo! Messenger client. It is characterized by two areas: a rational, rule-based area and an evocative area. The first one is based on well founded techniques of computational humor and a standard AIML KB. The second one is based on a conceptual space, automatically induced by a corpus of funny documents, where KB items and user sentences are mapped. This area emulates an associative/evocative behavior of the conversational agent, making her more attractive. EHeBby includes also an avatar that changes the face expression according to humoristic content of the dialogue.