Exploring vague language use and voice variation in human-agent interaction

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Exploring vague language use and voice variation in human-agent interaction

This thesis addresses the linguistic phenomenon of vague language (VL) and its effect on the creation of identity in the emerging and developing field of human-agent interaction (HAI). Current research on VL has focused on human interaction, while similar existing literature on language in HAI has f...

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Main Author:	Clark, Leigh M.H.
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	vague language; human-computer interaction; human-agent interaction; computer speech; computer voice
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37863/

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