CCT300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Super Columbine Massacre Rpg!, Natural Language Generation, Columbine High School Massacre
17 Jan 2018
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Moral panics: video games were blamed for causing violent behavior, doom was blamed for columbine massacre, super columbine massacre rpg. Sexting panics: novel was blamed for making women live in fantasy worlds, abandoning their real life duties, cars were blamed for isolating teenagers from their families, sexual predators, social media. Conversational agents: software program that interprets and responds to statements using natural language, uses one of several programmatic approaches to computational linguistics, used for: personal assistants, robots, e-commerce, digital games, training/education, mental health applications, etc. Goal oriented dialog agent: siri, i want to make an appointment . If there is an explicit goal, then that task can be modelled: models can be as detailed as desired, but anything that falls outside will be rejected or result in an error. Implementation can involve a (simpler) finite-state machine or (sophisticated) active ontologies or frame-based approaches.
