Chatbots were an important research subject in the past. A chatbot is a computer program or
an artificial intelligence program that participates in a conversation via auditory or textual …

Conversational agents are exploding in popularity. However, much work remains in the area
of social conversation as well as free-form conversation over a broad range of domains and …

To advance the state of the art in conversational AI, Amazon launched the Alexa Prize, a 2.5
million dollar competition that challenges university teams to build conversational agents, or" …

Building multi-domain AI agents is a challenging task and an open problem in the area of AI.
Within the domain of dialog, the ability to orchestrate multiple independently trained dialog …

Building multi-domain AI agents is a challenging task and an open problem in the area of AI.
Within the domain of dialog, the ability to orchestrate multiple independently trained dialog …

A Computação Social abrange estudos sobre dinâmicas sociais de interação e
colaboração, e o suporte computacional às mesmas. No mundo globalizado, as pessoas …

Conversational bots are assuming control over the business space. Consistently, individuals
send in excess of a billion messages to organizations and associations through numerous …

Knowledge graphs are graph-structured knowledge bases that have shown to be of great
value in many Artificial Intelligence applications in academia and industry alike. They are …

To build Sounding Board, we develop a system architecture that is capable of
accommodating dialog strategies that we designed for socialbot conversations. The …

We study the features crucial for a companion robot conceptual processing and suggest a
practical implementation of a cognitive architecture that support these features while …