Conversational Agents

Steering Narrative Agents through a Dynamic Cognitive Framework for Guided Emergent Storytelling

A dynamic cognitive framework for narrative agents in interactive storytelling, combining BDI representations with LLM generation to balance story coherence with player agency. …

c.-yang

BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Agents

BEE is a modular cognitive framework for conversational agents featuring belief management, value alignment, transparent reasoning, and extensibility. Best Paper Honorable Mention …

c.-yang

A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents

A joint framework modeling personality and emotion for personality-consistent conversational agents, using contrastive learning to decouple emotion from semantic content. IVA 2025. …

n.-kovacevic
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Personality & Cognitive Architectures for Conversational Agents

Deep learning-based cognitive frameworks that enable conversational agents to maintain consistent personality, beliefs, values, and emotional states across extended interactions — …