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This paper describes the Conversation Simulator, a software program designed to generate simulated conversations. The simulator consists of scriptable agents that can exchange speech acts and conversational signals. The paper illustrates how such a tool can be used to study some effects of seemingly straightforward choices in conversations.
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ter Maat, M., Heylen, D. (2010). Generating Simple Conversations. In: Esposito, A., Campbell, N., Vogel, C., Hussain, A., Nijholt, A. (eds) Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12397-9_7
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