Efficient cultural models of verbal behavior for communicative agents

Authors:
Alicia Sagae;Jerry R. Hobbs;Suzanne Wertheim;Michael H. Agar;Emily Ho;W. Lewis Johnson
Affiliations:
Alelo Inc, Los Angeles, CA;Information Sciences Institute, USC, Los Angeles, CA;Alelo Inc, Los Angeles, CA;Ethknoworks, Santa Fe, NM;Alelo Inc, Los Angeles, CA;Alelo Inc, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents compositional models of culture for conversational agents that are embedded in a training system for cross-cultural competency. Our models are implemented as ontologies of statements in common logic, with culture-specific and culture-general components. We compare the compositional framework to a finite-state system, in terms of development effort, number of reused and new objects, and flexibility and accuracy of resulting conversational simulations.