Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
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...
We survey recent research in which the impact of an embodied conversational agent on human-computer interaction has been assessed through a human evaluation. In some cases, the eva...
Just like humans, conversational computer systems should not listen silently to their input and then respond. Instead, they should enforce the speaker-listener link by attending ac...