This paper presents Latent Semantic Googling, a variant of Landauer’s Latent Semantic Indexing that uses the Google search engine to judge the semantic closeness of sets of word...
This paper introduces video quality analysis for automated video capture and editing. Previously, we proposed an automated video capture and editing system for conversation scenes...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
In this paper we investigate the role of user emotions in human-machine goal-oriented conversations. There has been a growing interest in predicting emotions from acted and non-act...
In a conversational system, determining a user’s focus of attention is crucial to the success of the system. Motivated by previous psycholinguistic findings, we are currently e...