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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
LREC
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Rich Annotation of Large Corpus of Conversational transcribed speech: the Chunking Task of the EPAC Project
This paper describes the use of the CasSys platform in order to achieve the chunking of conversational speech transcripts by means of cascades of Unitex transducers. Our system is...
Jean-Yves Antoine, Abdenour Mokrane, Nathalie Frib...
EWCBR
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
What Evaluation Criteria Are Right for CCBR? Considering Rank Quality
Abstract. Evaluation criteria for conversational CBR (CCBR) systems are important to guide development and tuning of new methods, and to enable practitioners to make informed decis...
Steven Bogaerts, David B. Leake
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Balancing false alarms and hits in Spoken Term Detection
This paper presents methods to improve retrieval of Out-OfVocabulary (OOV) terms in a Spoken Term Detection (STD) system. We demonstrate that automated tagging of OOV regions help...
Carolina Parada, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadra...
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic phonetic transcription of large speech corpora
This study is aimed at investigating whether automatic phonetic transcription procedures can approximate manual transcriptions typically delivered with contemporary large speech c...
Christophe Van Bael, Lou Boves, Henk van den Heuve...