For flexible interactions between a robot and humans, we address the issue of automatic recognition of human emotions during the interaction such as embarrassment, pleasure, and af...
This paper explores conversational grunts in a face-to-face setting. The study investigates the prosody and turn-taking effect of fillers and feedback tokens that has been annotat...
We compare the relative utility of different automatically computable linguistic feature sets for modeling student learning in computer dialogue tutoring. We use the PARADISE frame...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Amruta Pu...
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
We explore the task of automatically classifying dialogue acts in 1-on-1 online chat forums, an increasingly popular means of providing customer service. In particular, we investi...