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Novel Computational Linguistic Measures, Dialogue System and the Development of SOPHIE: Standardized Online Patient for Healthcare Interaction Education
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylan Sen, Benjamin Kane +5
In this paper, we describe the iterative participatory design of SOPHIE, an online virtual patient for feedback-based practice of sensitive patient-physician conversations, and dis…
History-Aware Question Answering in a Blocks World Dialogue System
Benjamin Kane, Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart K. Schubert
It is essential for dialogue-based spatial reasoning systems to maintain memory of historical states of the world. In addition to conveying that the dialogue agent is mentally pres…
A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World
Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Gindi +1
The blocks world is a classic toy domain that has long been used to build and test spatial reasoning systems. Despite its relative simplicity, tackling this domain in its full comp…
Discourse Behavior of Older Adults Interacting With a Dialogue Agent Competent in Multiple Topics
S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Kimberly A. Van Orden +1
We present some results concerning the dialogue behavior and inferred sentiment of a group of older adults interacting with a computer-based avatar. Our avatar is unique in its abi…
A Type-coherent, Expressive Representation as an Initial Step to Language Understanding
Gene Louis Kim, Lenhart Schubert
A growing interest in tasks involving language understanding by the NLP community has led to the need for effective semantic parsing and inference. Modern NLP systems use semantic…
Dialogue Design and Management for Multi-Session Casual Conversation with Older Adults
S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Benjamin Kane +3
We address the problem of designing a conversational avatar capable of a sequence of casual conversations with older adults. Users at risk of loneliness, social anxiety or a sense…