[Cltstaff] [Clt] [Ltg] LTG Seminar [Nicolas Szilas, Aug 9]

[Debbie Richards]

Hi,

I would have liked to come, but I am in NZ that day. Oh well.

Debbie

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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Rolf Schwitter wrote:

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> LTG Seminar
>  - see: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html
>
> Monday, Aug 9, 2004 at 11am
> Macquarie Uni, E6A 357
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>
> Speaker: Nicolas Szilas, LINC, University of Paris 8
> Text and Dialog Management in Interactive Drama: The Case of IDtension
>
>
>
> Interactive Drama (ID) aims at providing a new kind of experience to a user,
> where s/he could play the main character in a drama. The challenge is to
> allow the user to deeply modify the course of the story, while maintaining
> the narrative nature of the experience.
>
>
>
> ID involves several research areas such as Intelligent Agents, Virtual
> Reality, AI, Narratology and NLP. We are building software for ID, based on
> a modeling of narrative, in order to combine interactivity and narrativity.
>
>
>
> This research tackles several issues related to NLP that we would like to
> discuss:
>
> -         How the user should enter linguistic commands to his/her character
> (free speech, free text, button based interface, etc.)?
>
> -         How the author could enter the textual content in the ID, without
> being required to learn computational linguistics?
>
> -         What kind of dialog management system is suited to complement the
> drama engine?
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>
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