Rapid development of advanced question-answering characters by non-experts

Authors:
Sudeep Gandhe;Alysa Taylor;Jillian Gerten;David Traum
Affiliations:
USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA
Venue:
SIGDIAL '11 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We demonstrate a dialogue system and the accompanying authoring tools that are designed to allow authors with little or no experience in building dialogue systems to rapidly build advanced question-answering characters. To date seven such virtual characters have been built by non-experts using this architecture and tools. Here we demonstrate one such character, PFC Sean Avery, which was developed by a non-expert in 3 months.