ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems (IDS-99) June 22-25, 1999 Kloster Irsee, Germany

Speech and Language Interactions in a Web Theatre Environment

Anton Nijholt, Joris Hulstijn, and Arjan van Hessen

Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

We discuss research on interaction in a virtual theatre that can be accessed through Web pages. In the environment we employ several agents. The virtual theatre allows navigation through keyboard and mouse, but there is also a navigation agent which listens to typed input and spoken commands. We also have an information agent which allows a NL dialogue, where input is keyboard- driven and output is by tables and template driven NL generation. In development are talking faces for the agents. A user’s commitment to this environment is increased by increasing ‘presence’.

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Bibliographic reference.  Nijholt, Anton / Hulstijn, Joris / Hessen, Arjan van (1999): "Speech and language interactions in a web theatre environment", In IDS-99, 129-132.