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ALOHA: Artificial Learning of Human Attributes for Dialogue Agents
Aaron W. Li, Veronica Jiang, Steven Y. Feng +3
For conversational AI and virtual assistants to communicate with humans in a realistic way, they must exhibit human characteristics such as expression of emotion and personality. C…
Keep Calm and Switch On! Preserving Sentiment and Fluency in Semantic Text Exchange
Steven Y. Feng, Aaron W. Li, Jesse Hoey
In this paper, we present a novel method for measurably adjusting the semantics of text while preserving its sentiment and fluency, a task we call semantic text exchange. This is u…
"Conservatives Overfit, Liberals Underfit": The Social-Psychological Control of Affect and Uncertainty
Jesse Hoey, Neil J. MacKinnon
The presence of artificial agents in human social networks is growing. From chatbots to robots, human experience in the developed world is moving towards a socio-technical system i…
Improving Humanness of Virtual Agents and Users' Cooperation through Emotions
Moojan Ghafurian, Neil Budnarain, Jesse Hoey
In this paper, we analyze the performance of an agent developed according to a well-accepted appraisal theory of human emotion with respect to how it modulates play in the context…