A Conversational Agent to Encourage Willingness to Communicate in the Context of English as a Foreign Language | Zendy

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A Conversational Agent to Encourage Willingness to Communicate in the Context of English as a Foreign Language

Author(s) -

Emmanuel Ayedoun,

Yuki Hayashi,

Kazuhisa Seta

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.219

Subject(s) - computer science , conversation , embodied cognition , context (archaeology) , dialog system , domain (mathematical analysis) , willingness to communicate , english as a foreign language , foreign language , human–computer interaction , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , linguistics , world wide web , paleontology , philosophy , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , dialog box

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

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