In this demonstration we will present technologies that enable learners to engage in spoken conversations in foreign languages, integrating intelligent tutoring and serious game capabilities into a package that helps learners quickly acquire communication skills. Conversational AI technologies based on the SAIBA framework for dialog modeling are realized in this 3-D game environment. Participan...

We have developed the Halpin system to implement our multimodal conversational model for information retrieval. This dialogueoriented interface allows the access to a digital library database, on the internet, in a natural language way, and gives its oral responses via usual browsers. The results of the first experiments show that the Halpin system provides some interesting dialogues (in partic...

This proposal builds upon a well-established foundation of experimental data demonstrating the efficacy of LVST to help individuals with Idiopathic Parkinson Disease and the power of conversational interaction with animated agents to help individuals learn. This fit between ongoing work at LSVT and CSLR offers an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate the efficacy of speech treatment enhanced...

Individuals share experiences and build relationships through the medium of narrative. Lifelong personal narratives play a key role in developing social identity. Individuals with little or no functional speech due to severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI) find it difficult to share personal narrative as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems do not support interactive ...

The story of Pinocchio is the story of a man who creates a puppet with the ability to speak using human language, and to converse naturally – even to lie. Since the early days of the industrial revolution, people have imagined creating agents that can emulate human skills, including language production and conversation (Mayer, 1878; Wood, 2003). A modern example of this is Turing’s test for art...

Service-oriented architecture concepts and Web Services specifications allow for an infinite binding between the service requestor and the service provider. This open-ended form of interaction constrains the service provider from changing service contracts, policies and endpoints. Other distributed technologies and protocols such as Jini and DHCP provide for the use of a lease to more easily ma...

This paper surveys data management techniques used in Application Servers. It begins with an overview of Application Server architectures and the way they have evolved from earlier transaction processing systems. It then presents a ta-xonomy of clustered services that differ in the way they manage data in memory and on disk. The treatment of conversational state is discussed in depth. Finally, ...

Self-service systems, online help systems, web services, mobile communication devices, remote control systems, and dashboard computers are providing ever more functionality. However, along with greater functionality, the user must also come to terms with the greater complexity and a steeper learning curve. This complexity is compounded by the sheer proliferation of different systems lacking a s...

In this paper, we present the Adapter-Bot, a generative chat-bot that uses fixed backbone conversational model such as DialGPT (Zhang et al. 2019) and triggers on-demand dialogue skills via different adapters (Houlsby 2019). Each adapter can be trained independently, thus allowing continual integration of without retraining entire model. Depending on skills, is able to process multiple knowledg...