An Embodied Conversational Agent for Interactive Videogame Environments

Conversational agents have a wide range of domains and levels of sophistication.
Relatively sophisticated agents can be implemented using existing language engineering techniques.
Videogames are an excellent domain for these agents.
We've implemented a Half-Life Agent that has some conversational capabilities.
One of the key problems for this agent is to resolve references.
Since the agent shares a dynamic environment with the user, reference resolution is more difficult than in, e.g., newspaper articles.

by Ian Kenny and Chris Huyck