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Poggi, I., Pelachaud, C., de Rosis, F., Carofiglio, V., De Carolis, B. (2005). Greta. A Believable Embodied Conversational Agent. In: Stock, O., Zancanaro, M. (eds) Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3051-7_1

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