Dynamic interaction menus from natural language representations

A method, implemented by a computing device comprising a processor and one or more output devices communicatively connected to the processor, the method comprising:

• providing, with the processor, a computer-controlled character in a virtual world;
• associating, with the processor, the computer-controlled character with a semantic knowledgebase;
• responding, with the processor, to an initiation of an interaction with the computer-controlled character by combining semantic representations from the semantic knowledgebase with semantic representations from the virtual world, thereby generating semantic dialog elements dynamically generated based on both the combined semantic structures and inputs from the user, and providing the semantic dialog elements via one or more of the output devices;
• in which the semantic dialog elements generated comprise one or more user dialog elements, and one or more computer-controlled character dialog elements responsive to the user dialog elements.

A storage medium, readable by a computing device and comprising executable instructions that are executable by the computing device, in which when the executable instructions are executed, cause the computing device to:

• receive inputs defining a virtual world described by a state that may be influenced by a user;
• receive inputs defining one or more computer-controlled characters;
• receive inputs defining one or more language representations;
• receive inputs associating one or more of the language representations with one or more states of the virtual world, and one or more of the language representations with knowledgebases of one or more of the computer-controlled characters;
• combine one or more of the language representations associated with one or more of the states of the virtual world with one or more of the language representations associated with the knowledgebase of one of the computer-controlled characters, in response to an initiation of a user interaction, to dynamically generate one or more dialog elements based on both the combined language representations and inputs from the user;
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• provide the dialog elements in computer-controlled character dialog elements via one or more output devices.