This paper presents an experiment evaluating the effects of virtual agents' language proficiency on whether they are perceived as a native speakers or not. Our first results indicate that beyond 10% word order mistakes and 25% infinitive mistakes, virtual agents are perceived as non-native speakers, even though their appearance and non-verbal behaviour were not altered. We believe these thresholds constitute interesting guidelines possibly simplifying the design of non-native speaker simulations.
%0 Journal Article
%1 obremski2019nonnative
%A Obremski, David
%A Lugrin, Jean-Luc
%A Schaper, Philipp
%A Lugrin, Birgit
%D 2019
%I ACM
%J ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2019
%K IVA birgit lugrin mi myown obremski schaper
%R https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329427
%T Non-Native Speaker Generation and Perception for Mixed-Cultural Settings
%X This paper presents an experiment evaluating the effects of virtual agents' language proficiency on whether they are perceived as a native speakers or not. Our first results indicate that beyond 10% word order mistakes and 25% infinitive mistakes, virtual agents are perceived as non-native speakers, even though their appearance and non-verbal behaviour were not altered. We believe these thresholds constitute interesting guidelines possibly simplifying the design of non-native speaker simulations.
%@ 978-1-4503-6672-4/19/07
@article{obremski2019nonnative,
abstract = {This paper presents an experiment evaluating the effects of virtual agents' language proficiency on whether they are perceived as a native speakers or not. Our first results indicate that beyond 10% word order mistakes and 25% infinitive mistakes, virtual agents are perceived as non-native speakers, even though their appearance and non-verbal behaviour were not altered. We believe these thresholds constitute interesting guidelines possibly simplifying the design of non-native speaker simulations. },
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author = {Obremski, David and Lugrin, Jean-Luc and Schaper, Philipp and Lugrin, Birgit},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24e021f622448a8fedaed334ce177d6a3/hci-uwb},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329427},
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isbn = {978-1-4503-6672-4/19/07},
journal = {ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2019},
keywords = {IVA birgit lugrin mi myown obremski schaper},
publisher = {ACM},
timestamp = {2024-05-06T17:22:37.000+0200},
title = {Non-Native Speaker Generation and Perception for Mixed-Cultural Settings},
year = 2019
}