Modeling characters that interact with users as part of a character-as-a-service implementation

Abstract

In various embodiments, a character engine models a character that interacts with users The modeling techniques include evaluating user input data that is associated with a user device to identify a user intent and an assessment domain, selecting a first set of inference algorithms from a plurality of inference algorithms based, at least in part, on the user intent and the assessment domain, and applying the user intent and the assessment domain to the first set of inference algorithms to generate a plurality of inferences. The modeling techniques further include consolidating the plurality of inferences into a consolidated inference, applying a second set of inference algorithms from the plurality of inference algorithms to the consolidated inference to generate a context-specific inference, computing the character response to the user input data based on the user input data, the context-specific inference, and data representing knowledge associated with a character, and causing the user device to output the character response to the user.