@InProceedings{abuali-EtAl:2018:SIGdial,
  author    = {Abu Ali, Dana  and  Ahmad, Muaz  and  Al Hassan, Hayat  and  Dozsa, Paula  and  Hu, Ming  and  Varias, Jose  and  Habash, Nizar},
  title     = {A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {241--244},
  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.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-5027}
}