POLLy: A Conversational System that uses a Shared Representation to Generate Action and Social Language.
Swati Gupta, Marilyn A. Walker, Daniela Maria Romano · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2008
We present a demo of our conversational system POLLy (POliteness in Language Learning) which uses a common planning representation to generate actions to be performed by embodied agents in a virtual environment and to generate spoken utterances for dialogues about the steps involved in completing the task. In order to generate socially appropriate dialogue, Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness is used to constrain the dialogue generation process.