Amir Tamrakar


2018

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SMILEE: Symmetric Multi-modal Interactions with Language-gesture Enabled (AI) Embodiment
Sujeong Kim | David Salter | Luke DeLuccia | Kilho Son | Mohamed R. Amer | Amir Tamrakar
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

We demonstrate an intelligent conversational agent system designed for advancing human-machine collaborative tasks. The agent is able to interpret a user’s communicative intent from both their verbal utterances and non-verbal behaviors, such as gestures. The agent is also itself able to communicate both with natural language and gestures, through its embodiment as an avatar thus facilitating natural symmetric multi-modal interactions. We demonstrate two intelligent agents with specialized skills in the Blocks World as use-cases of our system.