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Title | ||
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A Conversational Agent to Encourage Willingness to Communicate in the Context of English as a Foreign Language |
Abstract | ||
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We propose an embodied conversational agent based on the willingness to communicate (WTC) model in L2 to help increase WTC in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) by providing users with various daily conversation contexts. To simulate realistic and efficient conversations, we adopted a semantic approach in the response generation and created a system with flexible and adaptable domain knowledge, user's intent detection, and mixed-initiative conversation strategy. Our evaluation of the proposed system demonstrated its potential to increase WTC in the EFL context. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.219 | Procedia Computer Science |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Willingness to communicate,second language acquisition,embodied conversational agent | Conference | 60 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1877-0509 | 1 | 0.35 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Ayedoun | 1 | 1 | 0.35 |
| Yuki Hayashi | 2 | 38 | 11.12 |
| Kazuhisa Seta | 3 | 26 | 12.94 |