%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 lugrin mi myown obremski schaper sia %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. }, added-at = {2023-03-06T16:25:57.000+0100}, author = {Obremski, David and Lugrin, Jean-Luc and Schaper, Philipp and Lugrin, Birgit}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24e021f622448a8fedaed334ce177d6a3/sia-bib}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329427}, interhash = {a56aebc283a1539bf7f153a1904985b7}, intrahash = {4e021f622448a8fedaed334ce177d6a3}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6672-4/19/07}, journal = {ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2019}, keywords = {IVA lugrin mi myown obremski schaper sia}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2023-10-30T08:51:14.000+0100}, title = {Non-Native Speaker Generation and Perception for Mixed-Cultural Settings}, year = 2019 }