Development Report:
Manzai Robots: Entertainment Robots Based on Auto-Created Manzai Scripts from Web News Articles
Tomohiro Umetani, Ryo Mashimo, Akiyo Nadamoto,
Tatsuya Kitamura, and Hirotaka Nakayama
Department of Intelligence and Informatics, Konan University, 8-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada, Kobe 658-8501, Japan

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