Topic switch models for dialogue management in virtual humans

This paper presents a novel data-driven Topic Switch Model based on a cognitive representation of a limited set of topics that are currently in-focus, which determines what utterances are chosen next. The transition model was statistically learned from a large set of transcribed dyadic interactions....

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Main Authors: Zhu, Wenjue, Chowanda, Andry, Valstar, Michel F.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35622/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35622/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35622/1/topic-switch-models.pdf