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LRE
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Corpus-based generation of head and eyebrow motion for an embodied conversational agent
Humans are known to use a wide range of non-verbal behaviour while speaking. Generating naturalistic embodied speech for an artificial agent is therefore an application where tech...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Named entity recognition from Conversational Telephone Speech leveraging Word Confusion Networks for training and recognition
Named Entity (NE) recognition from the results of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is challenging because of ASR errors. To detect NEs, one of the options is to use a statistica...
Gakuto Kurata, Nobuyasu Itoh, Masafumi Nishimura, ...
LREC
2008
89views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics
We evaluate discriminative parse reranking and parser self-training on a new English test set using four versions of the Charniak parser and a variety of parser evaluation metrics...
Jennifer Foster, Josef van Genabith
GECCO
2004
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Achieving Shorter Search Times in Voice Conversion Using Interactive Evolution
We have already proposed using evolutionary computation to adjust the voice quality conversion parameters, and we have reported that this approach produces results that are not onl...
Yuji Sato
AAMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
Justine Cassell, Hannes Högni Vilhjálm...