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Agents United: an open platform for multi-agent conversational systems. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
BEINEMA, T., DAVISON, D., REIDSMA, D. et al. 2021. Agents United: an open platform for multi-agent conversational systems. In Proceedings of 21st ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Intelligent virtual agents international conference 2021 (IVA '21), 14-17 September 2021, [virtual conference]. New York: ACM [online], pages 17-24. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478352

The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes with integration of multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United Platform: an open source platform that researchers and developers can use... Read More about Agents United: an open platform for multi-agent conversational systems..

Towards a declarative approach to constructing dialogue games. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
SNAITH, M. and WELLS, S. 2021. Towards a declarative approach to constructing dialogue games. In Grasso, F., Green, N.L., Schneider, J. and Wells, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on computational models on natural argument (CMNA 2021), 2-3 September 2021, [virtual conference]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2937. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 9-18. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2937/paper2.pdf

In this paper we sketch a new approach to the development of dialogue games that builds upon the knowledge gained from several decades of dialogue game research across a variety of communities and which leverages the capabilities of the Dialogue Game... Read More about Towards a declarative approach to constructing dialogue games..

Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. (2021)
Journal Article
SNAITH, M., NIELSEN, R.Ø., KOTNIS, S.R. and PEASE, A. 2021. Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. Argument and computation [online], 12(2), pages 249-264. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-200908

As the average age of the population increases, so too do the number of people living with chronic illnesses. With limited resources available, the development of dialogue-based e-health systems that provide justified general health advice offers a c... Read More about Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context..

A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals. (2021)
Journal Article
SNAITH, M., CONWAY, N., BEINEMA, T., DE FRANCO, D., PEASE, A., KANTHARAJU, R., JANIER, M., HUIZING, G., PELACHAUD, C. and OP DEN AKKER, H. 2021. A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals. Language resources and evaluation [online], 55(4), pages 1077-1092. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09526-0

Language resources for studying doctor–patient interaction are rare, primarily due to the ethical issues related to recording real medical consultations. Rarer still are resources that involve more than one healthcare professional in consultation wit... Read More about A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals..