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Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation Chatbots Support Practice Using Conversation Analysis
Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation
Sviatlana Höhn
Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation Chatbots Support Practice Using Conversation Analysis
Sviatlana Höhn University of Luxembourg Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Preface
I started the research described in this book with the attractive and inspiring idea of Artificial Companions that will be our helpers, our little artificial friends. They will know us and our preferences and serve us in many different tasks without having a specific purpose. They will interact with us for a prolonged period of time. They will entertain us and help us to manage our duties and leisure activities. And they will do all this using natural language and have a nice personality. It was April 2011 and I was a beginner PhD student at the University of Luxembourg. But why should a person with a normal social life be interested in engaging in longer interactions with a machine instead of talking to their relatives, friends or neighbours? It was not difficult for me to find an answer to this question. I was born in the Soviet Union, and I grew up in Belarus. I started learning German as a second language when I was seven years old and continued learning and studying it after my school graduation. All the language teachers and university lecturers were non-native speakers of German. There was no possibility to practice German with native speakers i
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