AI

Conversational AI is a system capable of conversing with an interlocutor. Conversational systems, a special variant of question-answering systems, are aware of the context and the conversation history. Translating sequences from one domain to another is an intrinsic characterist…

The ways people express their opinions and sentiments have radically changed in the past few years thanks to the advent of social networks, web communities, blogs, wikis and other online collaborative media. The distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of unstructured inf…

Characters in games and virtual worlds continue to gain improvements in both their visual appearance and more human-like behaviours with each successive generation of hardware. One area that seemingly would need to be addressed if this evolution in human-like characters is to co…

Converse View, Distorted World: Influences and Poetry is a collection of poetry that focuses on themes of culture, transformation, self-understanding, and distorted relationships. The poems respond to issues of contemporary life experienced in nearly every urban Mecca throughout…

This thesis collects three essays which deal with the use of identities as a marketing device; investigating how capitalism informs and reduces identities, like race, gender, and sexuality to market products to individuals. The first essay looks at how scholarly perspectives on …