A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System

Dana Abu Ali, Muaz Ahmad, Hayat Al Hassan, Paula Dozsa, Ming Hu, Jose Varias, Nizar Habash


Abstract
This demonstration paper presents a bilingual (Arabic-English) interactive human avatar dialogue system. The system is named TOIA (time-offset interaction application), as it simulates face-to-face conversations between humans using digital human avatars recorded in the past. TOIA is a conversational agent, similar to a chat bot, except that it is based on an actual human being and can be used to preserve and tell stories. The system is designed to allow anybody, simply using a laptop, to create an avatar of themselves, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-generational sharing of narratives to wider audiences. The system currently supports monolingual and cross-lingual dialogues in Arabic and English, but can be extended to other languages.
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W18-5027
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Kazunori Komatani, Diane Litman, Kai Yu, Alex Papangelis, Lawrence Cavedon, Mikio Nakano
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
241–244
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-5027
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-5027
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Dana Abu Ali, Muaz Ahmad, Hayat Al Hassan, Paula Dozsa, Ming Hu, Jose Varias, and Nizar Habash. 2018. A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 241–244, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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