Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agent (1997)
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@MISC{Walker97improvisinglinguistic,
author = {Personality Marilyn Walker and Marilyn A. Walker and Janet E. Cahn and Stephen J. Whittaker},
title = {Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agent},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with apphcations to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that hnguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which computer characters can improvise. We show that the mechanisms proposed introduce the possibility of socially oriented agents, meet the requirements that lifehke characters be behevable, and satisfy particular criteria for improvisation proposed by Hayes-Roth.
