Due to its important role in dialogue, politeness has been widely studied both from a theoretical point of view and at a practical level in virtual agents. However, few attention ...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the function of imperatives in dialogue. In particular, the focus is on the use of logically complex imperatives (e.g., `Say hel...
We perform a large-scale evaluation of multiple off-the-shelf speech recognizers across diverse domains for virtual human dialogue systems. Our evaluation is aimed at speech recog...
We explored the possibility of predicting learners’ affective states (boredom, flow/engagement, confusion, and frustration) by monitoring variations in the cohesiveness of tutori...
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...