Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
This paper proposes and compares four cross-lingual and bilingual automatic speech recognition techniques under the constraints of limited memory size and CPU speed. The first thr...
We are developing tools to support a conversational metaphor for requirements definition and analysis. Our conversational model consists of three components: (1) a hypertextual re...
The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents—by simply provi...
Paul Piwek, Hugo Hernault, Helmut Prendinger, Mits...
Word prediction can be used for enhancing the communication ability of persons with speech and language impairments. In this work, we explore two methods of adapting a language mo...
Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, Kathleen F. McCoy, ...