This paper presents a novel Automatic Question Generation (AQG) approach that generates trigger questions as a form of support for students’ learning through writing. The approac...
We present TextPro, a suite of modular Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for analysis of Italian and English texts. The suite has been designed so as to integrate and reuse ...
Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi, Roberto Zanoli
In this paper we introduce a system that automatically adds different types of non-verbal behavior to a given dialogue script between two virtual embodied agents. It allows us to t...
Werner Breitfuss, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishiz...
A modification of the standard Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is presented for finding the global minimum of a continuous multidimensional, multimodal function. We report resu...
A new stochastic method for locating the global minimum of a multidimensional function inside a rectangular hyperbox is presented. A sampling technique is employed that makes use ...