183 research outputs found
An embodied conversational agent for intelligent web interaction on pandemic crisis communication
In times of crisis, an effective communication mechanism is paramount in providing accurate and timely information to the community. In this paper we study the use of an intelligent embodied conversational agent (EGA) as the front end interface with the public for a Crisis Communication Network Portal (CCNet). The proposed system, CCNet, is an integration of the intelligent conversation agent, AINI, and an Automated Knowledge Extraction Agent (AKEA). AKEA retrieves first hand information from relevant sources such as government departments and news channels. In this paper, we compare the interaction of AINI against two popular search engines, two question answering systems and two conversational systems
Towards Avatars with Artificial Minds: Role of Semantic Memory
he first step towards creating avatars with human-like artificial minds is to give them human-like memory structures with an access to general knowledge about the world. This type of knowledge is stored in semantic memory. Although many approaches to modeling of semantic memories have been proposed they are not very useful in real life applications because they lack knowledge comparable to the common sense that humans have, and they cannot be implemented in a computationally efficient way. The most drastic simplification of semantic memory leading to the simplest knowledge representation that is sufficient for many applications is based on the Concept Description Vectors (CDVs) that store, for each concept, an information whether a given property is applicable to this concept or not. Unfortunately even such simple information about real objects or concepts is not available. Experiments with automatic creation of concept description vectors from various sources, including ontologies, dictionaries, encyclopedias and unstructured text sources are described. Haptek-based talking head that has an access to this memory has been created as an example of a humanized interface (HIT) that can interact with web pages and exchange information in a natural way. A few examples of applications of an avatar with semantic memory are given, including the twenty questions game and automatic creation of word puzzles
Choosing a Chatbot Development Tool
© 2021 IEEE.  Personal use of this material is permitted.  Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksChatbots are programs that supply services to users via conversation in natural language, acting as virtual assistants within social networks or web applications. Here, we review the most representative chatbot development tools with a focus on technical and managerial aspectsThis work was partially funded by the R&D program of the Madrid Region (project FORTE, S2018/TCS4314), and the Spanish Ministry of Science (project MASSIVE, RTI2018-095255-B-I00
Social interaction with computers: An interpretation of Weizenbaum's ELIZA and her heritage
Social interaction with computers is a key part of the frontier of automation. Weizenbaum's ELIZA continues to be relevant as the focus of the debate shifts from artificial intelligence to the future of narrative and emotional design. A version of ELIZA was implemented in Excel-Visual Basic for Applications that combines adherence to the original specification with easy experimentation
Proceedings of the 1st Standardized Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Workshop
Welcome to IEEE-ORA (Ontologies for Robotics and Automation) IROS workshop. This
is the 1st edition of the workshop on! Standardized Knowledge Representation and
Ontologies for Robotics and Automation. The IEEE-ORA 2014 workshop was held on
the 18th September, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In!the IEEE-ORA IROS workshop, 10 contributions were presented from 7 countries in
North and South America, Asia and Europe. The presentations took place in the
afternoon, from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The first session was dedicated to “Standards for
Knowledge Representation in Robotics”, where presentations were made from the
IEEE working group standards for robotics and automation, and also from the ISO TC
184/SC2/WH7. The second session was dedicated to “Core and Application
Ontologies”, where presentations were made for core robotics ontologies, and also for
industrial and robot assisted surgery ontologies. Three posters were presented in
emergent applications of ontologies in robotics.
We would like to express our thanks to all participants. First of all to the authors,
whose quality work is the essence of this workshop. Next, to all the members of the
international program committee, who helped us with their expertise and valuable
time. We would also like to deeply thank the IEEE-IROS 2014 organizers for hosting
this workshop.
Our deep gratitude goes to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, that sponsors!
the IEEE-ORA group activities, and also to the scientific organizations that kindly
agreed to sponsor all the workshop authors work
Neurocognitive Informatics Manifesto.
Informatics studies all aspects of the structure of natural and artificial information systems. Theoretical and abstract approaches to information have made great advances, but human information processing is still unmatched in many areas, including information management, representation and understanding. Neurocognitive informatics is a new, emerging field that should help to improve the matching of artificial and natural systems, and inspire better computational algorithms to solve problems that are still beyond the reach of machines. In this position paper examples of neurocognitive inspirations and promising directions in this area are given
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