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Improvising linguistic style: social and affective bases for agent personality

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Marilyn A. Walker,

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AGENTS '97: Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents

Pages 96 - 105

https://doi.org/10.1145/267658.267680

Published: 08 February 1997 Publication History

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