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Multi-humoroid: joking system that reacts with humor to humans' bad moods

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Pawel Dybala,

Michal Ptaszynski,

Rafal Rzepka,

Kenji ArakiAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1

Pages 1433 - 1434

Published: 10 May 2010 Publication History

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Abstract

This paper contributes to the field of humoroids -- humor-equipped conversational agents. We present our multi-agent system (multi-humoroid), which tells jokes according to users' emotions, in order to make them feel better. We briefly describe the components and the design of the system, and present results of two experiments showing that the system with humor was evaluated as generally better than a baseline dialogue agent.

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Dybala, P., Ptaszynski, M., Higuchi, S., Rzepka, R., and Araki, K. 2009. Humoroids -- Conversational Agents That Induce Positive Emotions with Humor, In Proc. of AAMAS 09, Budapest, Hungary, 1171--1172.

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Dybala, P., Ptaszynski, M., Higuchi, S., Rzepka, R., and Araki, K. 2008. Humor Prevails! - Implementing a Joke Generator into a Conversational System. In Proc. of AI-08, Wobcke, W. and Zhang, M. (eds), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008. LNAI 5360, 214--225, Springer Berlin & Heidelberg.

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Multi-humoroid: joking system that reacts with humor to humans' bad moods
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
    2. Natural language processing
      1. Natural language generation

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AAMAS '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1

May 2010

1578 pages

ISBN:9780982657119

General Chairs:
Michael Luck
King's College London, UK
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Sandip Sen
University of Tulsa

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SIGAI: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Richland, SC

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Published: 10 May 2010

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