MURML: A Multimodal Utterance Representation Markup Language
for Conversational Agents
Alfred Kranstedt, Stefan Kopp and Ipke Wachsmuth
Abstract
This paper presents work on an artificial anthropomorphic agent with multimodal
interaction abilities. It focuses on the development of a markup language, MURML,
that bridges between the planning and the animation tasks in the production of
multimodal utterances. This hierarchically structured notation provides flexible
means of describing gestures in a form-based way and of explicitly expressing
their relations to accompanying speech.
Keywords
Multimodal Communication, Form-based Gesture Description, Markup Languages,
Conversational Agents
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Anke Weinberger,
2003-02-20, 2003-06-03