Dialogue Management and Language Generation for a Robust Conversational Virtual Coach: Validation and User Study
dc.contributor.author | Vázquez Risco, Alain | |
dc.contributor.author | López Zorrilla, Asier | |
dc.contributor.author | Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel | |
dc.contributor.author | Torres Barañano, María Inés | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-13T15:08:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-13T15:08:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-01-27 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sensors 23(3) : (2023) // Article ID 1423 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1424-8220 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/59777 | |
dc.description.abstract | Designing human–machine interactive systems requires cooperation between different disciplines is required. In this work, we present a Dialogue Manager and a Language Generator that are the core modules of a Voice-based Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) capable of carrying out challenging, long and complex coaching conversations. We also develop an efficient integration procedure of the whole system that will act as an intelligent and robust Virtual Coach. The coaching task significantly differs from the classical applications of SDSs, resulting in a much higher degree of complexity and difficulty. The Virtual Coach has been successfully tested and validated in a user study with independent elderly, in three different countries with three different languages and cultures: Spain, France and Norway. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research presented in this paper has been conducted as part of the project EMPATHIC that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant No. 769872. Additionally, this work has been partially funded by projects BEWORD and AMIC-PC of the Minister of Science of Technology, under Grant Nos. PID2021-126061OB-C42 and PDC2021-120846-C43, respectively. Vázquez and López Zorrilla received a PhD scholarship from the Basque Government, with Grant Nos. PRE 2020 1 0274 and PRE 2017 1 0357, respectively. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/769872 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2021-126061OB-C42 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PDC2021-120846-C43 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | human–machine interaction | es_ES |
dc.subject | virtual coaching | es_ES |
dc.subject | spoken dialogue systems | es_ES |
dc.subject | natural language generation | es_ES |
dc.subject | artificial intelligence | es_ES |
dc.subject | user study | es_ES |
dc.title | Dialogue Management and Language Generation for a Robust Conversational Virtual Coach: Validation and User Study | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2023-02-10T14:29:08Z | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1423 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/s23031423 | |
dc.contributor.funder | European Commission | |
dc.departamentoes | Electricidad y electrónica | |
dc.departamentoeu | Elektrizitatea eta elektronika |
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