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Handling Natural Language Requests for Conversational Assistant Agents

The DAFT project is a direct sequel of the InterViews project [2000 - 2003] of which it takes up the main objectives: the design and the implementation of a generic architecture for Conversational Assistant Agents, that is, Natural Language Interface Contextual Help systems dedicated to novice users when they are interacting with new software components and services.

— The page of the InterViews project contains all the documentation on our previous work about Conversational Agents
— Page of the French Workgroup on Embodied Conversational Agents |GT ACA|

— Page of François Bouchet
— Page of David Leray
— Page of Karl Le Guern [not available]

General Documentation

Report	R. Khatiwada, Modeling Time Situated Questions for an Assisting Conversational Agent, M2R Master Report in Computer SCience of Paris 11 University, September 2008.
Paper	D. Leray, Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Assisting Dialogical Agents Modeled from Novice User’s Perceptions, 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES'07, LNAI 4693 pp 1122-1129, September 12-14, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy
Poster	D. Leray, J-P. Sansonnet, Acquiring Knowledge for Synthesizing Models for Assistance, Poster presentation, Conference Langages et Modèles à Objets, LMO'07, Toulouse, 2-4 avril 2007
Paper	J-P. Sansonnet, D. Leray, Kiwi: An environment for capturing the Perceptual Cues of an Application for an Assisting Conversational Agent, Conference AISB'07, workshop on language, Speech and gesture, Newcastle GB, 2-4 April 2007
Paper	D. Leray, J-P. Sansonnet, Ordinary user oriented model construction for Assisting Conversational Agents, International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents, CHAA'06 at IEEE-WIC-ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Hong Kong, dec 2006
Paper	D. Leray, J-P. Sansonnet, Towards more Perceptual Models for Assisting Conversational Agents, The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents IVEVA '06, Aguascalientes (Mexico) Nov 2006
Paper	J-P. Sansonnet, D. Leray, J-C. Martin, Architecture of a Framework for Generic Assisting Conversational Agents, short presentation at Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, published in LNAI 4133 pp 145-156, Marina del Rey (CA) Aug 2006
Paper	J-P. Sansonnet, J-C. Martin, K. Leguern, A Software Engineering Approach Combining Rational and Conversational Agents for the Design of Assistance Applications, T. Panayiotopoulos et al. (Eds.): IVA 2005, LNAI 3661, pp 111 - 119, 2005.
Poster	D. Leray, J.-P. Sansonnet, Construction of Assisting Symbolic Models based on Novice Users Perception, Poster presentation, May 23-27, Delphi/GREECE EuroCogSci 2007

The DIVA toolkit

The DIVA toolkit of the DAFT project is dedicated to the support of teaching and research about Conversational Assistant Agents on the web:
— Home Page of the DIVA toolkit

Paper	Xuetao Mao, Sansonnet Jean Paul, Lin Li, Textual Conversation Agent for Enhancing Attraction in E-learning, International Conference on Innovation and Information Management (ICIIM 2012), Chengdu, China. January 7-8, 2012
Paper	M. Xuetao, F. Bouchet, J-P Sansonnet, Intelligent Assisting Conversational Agents viewed through novice users' requests, International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2009, Algarve, Portugal, June 20-22 2009
Paper	Xuetao M., Bouchet F., Sansonnet J. P., An ACA-based Semantic Space for Processing Domain Knowledge in the Assistance Context, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS 2009), Franz ko, ed., CPS publication, ISBN 978-0-7695-3687-3, pp. 344-349, June 30 - July 2 2009, Beijing China
Paper	M. Xuetao, F. Bouchet, J-P Sansonnet, Impact of agent’s answers variability on its believability and human-likeness and consequent chatbot improvements, AISB 2009 Convention on Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and complex Systems, Edinburgh Scotland, April 6-9 2009
Paper	M. Xuetao, J-P. Sansonnet, F. Bouchet, A corpus-based NLP-chain for a web-based Assisting Conversational Agent, Third Workshop on Animated Conversational Agents, WACA'2008, Paris, nov 2008
Slides	M. Xuetao, J-P. Sansonnet, F. Bouchet, A corpus-based NLP-chain for a web-based Assisting Conversational Agent, Third Workshop on Animated Conversational Agents, WACA'2008, Paris, nov 2008

Gestural agents

The DIVA toolkit of the DAFT project has been used as a support for the LIMSI incentive action on Gestural Agents, dedicated to French Sign Language stuides:
— Home Page of Gestural Agents

Paper	Sansonnet J-P., Braffort A., Verrecchia C., Towards interactive web-based virtual signers: first step, a platform for experimentation design, In GW 2009 "Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction", Kopp S., Wachsmuth I. Eds., Springer LNAI Vol. 5934, pp 313-324, 2010
Paper	A. Braffort, J-P Sansonnet and C.Verrecchia, Issues in dynamic generation of Sign Language utterances for a Web 2.0 virtual signer, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 09), Poster presentation, Amsterdam, Netherland, September 14-16 2009
Paper	J-P Sansonnet, A. Braffort, J. Segouat, C. Verrecchia, SL Teacher: a Framework for teaching LSF on the Web, The Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Accessibility (ICTA'09), Hammamet, Tunisia, May 7-9 2009
Paper	J-C Martin, J-P Sansonnet, A. Braffort, C. Verrecchia, Informing the Design of Deictic Behaviors of a Web Agent with Spoken and Sign Language Video Data, The 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009, Bielefeld Germany Febr 2009
Poster	J-P Sansonnet, A.Braffort, J-C Martin, C. Verrecchia, Towards interactive web-based signing avatars, Poster presentation at The 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009, Bielefeld Germany Febr 2009
Paper	A. Braffort, J-P Sansonnet, J-C Martin, C. Verrecchia, A web-based framework for interactive deictic and sign language agents, Third Workshop on Animated Conversational Agents, WACA'2008, Paris, 2008

Ambient assistant agents

DAFT assistant agents have been integrated into ambient environments in the framework of the LIMSI Iroom initiative and its related projects.
— Home Page of the LIMSI IRoom initiative
— Home Page of the STREP ATRACO project

Paper	Sansonnet J. P., Bellik Y., Expressing agents personality through ambient modalities, WACA 2010, Lille, pp 47-48, nov 25-26 2010
Paper	Y. Bellik, I. Rebaï, E. Machrouh, Y. Barzaj, C. Jacquet, G. Pruvost, and J.P. Sansonnet, Multimodal Interaction within Ambient Environments: an Exploratory Study, In Proc. Of INTERACT 2009, 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction,August 24-28 2009, LNCS Vol. 5727, pp 89-92, Uppsala Sweden
Slides	Rebai I., Sansonnet J. P., Bellik Y., A Conversational Assisting Agent for an Intelligent Ambient Room, Seminar GT ACA, 17 nov 2009, Paris, nov 17, 2009
Abstract	Jean-Paul Sansonnet et al., Personal Assisting Agent for Room-based Ambient: Proposition of a research study on Room-based Ambient Environments, LIMSI, april 15, 2008
Slides	Sansonnet J. P., Bellik Y., Expressing agents personality through ambient modalities, WACA 2010 short paper, nov 25-26 2010, Lille
Slides	J.-P. Sansonnet, New Directions in Personal Assisting Agents for Roombased Ambient Environments, may 20, 2008

Assistant agents for collaborative music prototyping

The DIVA toolkit of the DAFT project has been used to integrateassistant agents in the CODES framework, dedicated to Collaborative Music Prototyping on the web:

Paper	Miletto E. M., Pimenta M. S., and Bouchet F., Sansonnet J. P., Keller D., Principles for Music Creation by Novices in Networked Music Environments, Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 40(3), pp 205-216, 2011
Paper	J-P. Sansonnet, E. Milletto, F. Bouchet, M. Pimenta, Exploring the integration of teaching capabilities into a CSCP framework through help agents, 20th Symposio Brasileiro de Informatica na Educacao (SBIE), 17-20 nov 2009, Florianopolis, Brasil
Paper	E. Miletto, M. Soares Pimenta, F. Bouchet, J-P. Sansonnet, D. Keller, Music Creation by Novices should be both Prototypical and Cooperative - Lessons Learned from CODES, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM 2009), Recife Brasil, Sept 7-9 2009
Paper	E. Manara Miletto, J-P Sansonnet, M. Soares Pimenta, F. Bouchet, Corpus-based design of a Web 2.0 Assisting Agent, 8th International Workshop on Web-Oriented Software Technologies, IWWOST 2009, San Sebastian Spain, June 23 2009
Poster	E. Miletto, M. Soares Pimenta, J-P. Sansonnet, F. Bouchet, Social Music Making on the Web with CODES, Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Volume I: Distributed Systems & Engineering, Web Technologies Track, Poster paper, pp 876-877, march 22-26 2010, Sierre, Switzerland

Assistant agents for Information Retrieval systems

DAFT Asistant Agents can be intregated into Intelligent Information Retrieval Systems
— Home Page of Ounas Asfari

Chapter	Doan B. L., Sansonnet J. P., Adaptive Information Retrieval based on Task Context, Chapter 8 of book Systems Science and Collaborative Information Systems: Theories, Practices and New Research, Emilia Curras and Nuria Lloret Eds., pp 161--184, IGI Global, 2012, DOI:10.4018/978-1-61350-201-3.ch008
Paper	Asfari O., Doan B. L., Bourda Y., Sansonnet J. P., A Context-based Model for Web Query Reformulation, International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2010), 25-28 oct 2010, Valencia, Spain
Paper	Asfari O., Doan B. L., Bourda Y. Sansonnet J. P., Improving User Query Processing Based on User Profile and Task Context, SWWS'10 - The 2010 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services, Las Vegas, 12-15 july 2010
Paper	Asfari O., Doan B. L., Bourda Y. Sansonnet J. P., Personalized access to information by query reformulation based on the state of the current task and user profile, The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, SEMAPRO 2009, Sliema, Malta, October 11-16, 2009 [best paper award]

Documentation in french

Chapitre	Doan B. L., Sansonnet J. P., Apport du contexte de tâche dans la recherche d’informsation, Chapitre de l'ouvrage La recherche d'information en contexte. Outils et usages applicatifs, Grivel L. Ed., Collection Traité des sciences et techniques de l'information, Hermes, pp 63-95, February 2011
Article	A. Braffort, J-P Sansonnet, J-C Martin, C. Verrecchia, Diva, une architecture pour le support des agents gestuels interactifs sur internet, Revue TSI, Vol. 29 (7), pp 777-806, 2010
Thèse	Bouchet F., Conception d'une Chaîne de Traitement de la Langue Naturelle pour un Agent Conversationnel Assistant, Rapport de Thèse, Paris XI Orsay, 28 juin 2010
Article	M. Xuetao, J-P. Sansonnet, F. Bouchet, Définition d’un agent conversationnel assistant d’applications Internet à partir d’un corpus de requêtes, Revue TSI, Vol. 29 (10), pp 1123-1154, 2010
Rapport	Cyril Hasson, Étude de modèles d'assistance pour les contenus web actifs, Rapport M2R Informatique, Université de Paris XI, sept 2007
Article	D. Leray, Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Acquisition de connaissances perceptives pour un agent assistant, short paper at IC'2007, July 2-6, Grenoble, France
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, J-C. Martin, Agents déictiques pour l'Internet, Exposé à la journée "geste" du GT ACA, ENSAM Paris, 7 mars 2007
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, Du sens des couleurs dans le Petit Robert, janv 2007
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, A l'aide ! Argumentaire pour l’Assistance Contextuelle Dialogique, Notes de Lecture sur Capobianco & Carbonnell, nov 2006
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, DAFT, Approche médiateur pour un Agent Conversationnel Assistant, Présentation séminaire AMI, sept 2006
Rapport	A. Munteanu, Dialectique d'un agent assistant de sites webs, TER-stage Master informatique de l'Université de Paris X1, mars 2006
Article	D. Leray, J.P. Sansonnet,, Une librairie d’objets dialogiques pour des agents conversationnels assistants, short paper at Conference JFSMA '06 Annecy, oct 2006
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, Assistance et Rationalité dans le cadre des Agents Conversationnels Animés, Séminaire LIFL, Lille, 8 juin 2006
Slides	D. Leray, Étude d’une famille de composants dialogiques pour un agent conversationnel assistant, Seminaire LIMSI Orsay, 22 mai 2006
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, ChatBots dans l'Internet : Applications, Architectures, Limites, Tutoriel au séminaire du GTACA, 15 nov 2005.
Article	D. Leray, J-P. Sansonnet, Librairie de Widgets Dialogiques pour un Agent Conversationnel Assistant, Short paper at IHM05, Toulouse, 27-30 sept 2005.
Article	J-P. Sansonnet, K. Leguern, J-C. Martin, Une architecture médiateur pour des agents conversationnels animés, Workshop WACA'01, Grenoble, 13-14 june 2005.
Article	J.-P. Sansonnet, Composants dialogiques génériques : perspectives et méthodes pour une approche intégrée des outils assistants langagiers et de la programmation objet, Conference "Langages et Modèles à Objets", LMO 04, Lille 15-17 march 2004. [25 slides .pdf].
Article	J-P Sansonnet, J-C Martin, K. Le Guern, Architecture Médiateur pour un Agent Conversationnel Animé, unpublished paper, sept 2004.
Master	D. Leray, Daft Swing : une famille de composants dialogiques pour un agent conversationnel assistant, Report of the Master of Computer Sciences of the University of Paris XI, 1 sept 2005.
Slides	J-P Sansonnet, DAFT : Un environnement générique pour des composants dialogiques, FT R&D Lannion, 6 avril 2005.
DEA	K. Le Guern, Définition d'une architecture de médiateur pour des agents conversationnels animés, Rapport de stage de DEA de Sciences Cognitives de Paris XI, 3 sept 2004.
Demo	J-P Sansonnet, J-C Martin, K. Le Guern, Démonstration d’une Architecture Médiateur d’Agent Conversationnel Animé, Démonstration sous PowerPoint, oct 2004.
Slides	J-P. Sansonnet, DAFT : Une architecture médiateur pour des Agents Conversationnels Animés, Journée "Outils pour les ACA" au LIP6, Paris, 26 oct 2004
	J-P. Sansonnet, Karl Leguern, Architecture dialogique générique pour un Agent Conversationnel Animé, Journée du GT ACA, Paris VI, 6 juin 2004

Documentation related to the French Special Interest Group on Embodied Conversational Agents
— Home Page of the GT ACA

Rapports

J-P. Sansonnet, Argumentaire pour une équipe pluridisciplinaire multi laboratoires (EPML) sur les Agents Conversationnels Animés, ACA Work Group report #1, febr 2004.
J-P. Sansonnet, Presentation du groupe de travail sur les les Agents Conversationnels Animés, Paris, 3 march 2004.
J-P. Sansonnet, Agents Conversationnels Animés, Taxinomie ― Problématique ― Applications, Ecole d'été sur les Systèmes Complexes, Mèze, 9-4 avril 2007