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.- Anthology ID:
- W18-5027
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Editors:
- Kazunori Komatani, Diane Litman, Kai Yu, Alex Papangelis, Lawrence Cavedon, Mikio Nakano
- Venue:
- SIGDIAL
- SIG:
- SIGDIAL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 241–244
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-5027
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-5027
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System (Abu Ali et al., SIGDIAL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/W18-5027.pdf