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Validating a virtual human and automated feedback system for training doctor-patient communication skills
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Benjamin Kane +6
Effective communication between a clinician and their patient is critical for delivering healthcare maximizing outcomes. Unfortunately, traditional communication training approache…
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…
A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism: Experimental Results and Design Lessons
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Zahra Razavi, Abdullah Al Mamun +5
We present the design of an online social skills development interface for teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interface is intended to enable private conversation p…
A New Characterization of Probabilities in Bayesian Networks
Lenhart Schubert
We characterize probabilities in Bayesian networks in terms of algebraic expressions called quasi-probabilities. These are arrived at by casting Bayesian networks as noisy AND-OR-N…
Accelerating Partial-Order Planners: Some Techniques for Effective Search Control and Pruning
A. Gerevini, L. Schubert
We propose some domain-independent techniques for bringing well-founded partial-order planners closer to practicality. The first two techniques are aimed at improving search contro…
Knowledge Representation for Lexical Semantics: Is Standard First Order Logic Enough?
Marc Light, Lenhart Schubert
Natural language understanding applications such as interactive planning and face-to-face translation require extensive inferencing. Many of these inferences are based on the meani…