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The combination of ERICA and WikiTalk results in more natural and engaging human-robot conversations.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2019/947","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/947","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0947.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/947.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/bibtex/947","volume":{"slug":"2019","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2019","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/","year":2019,"location":"Macao","dates":"10-16 August 2019","editors":"Sarit Kraus","isbn":"978-0-9992411-4-1","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2019"},"section":"Demos","track":"Demos","number":947,"pages":{"first":6533,"last":6535},"keywords":["AI: Human-Computer Interactive Systems","AI: Natural Language Processing","AI: Speech Processing"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Blank et al., 2006] Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, and Holly Yanco. 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