Head pose and gesture offer several key conversational grounding cues and are used extensively in face-to-face interaction among people. We investigate how dialog context from an ...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Candace L. Sidner, Christo...
This paper presents a shallow dialogue analysis model, aimed at human-human dialogues in the context of staff or business meetings. Four components of the model are defined, and ...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Alexander Clark, Maria Georg...
Intonation is an important aspect of vocal production, used for a variety of communicative needs. Its modeling is therefore crucial in many speech understanding systems, particula...
In this paper we report our recent development of an end-to-end integrative design methodology for speech translation. Specifically, a novel decision function is proposed based o...
RRL is a relational reinforcement learning system based on Q-learning in relational state-action spaces. It aims to enable agents to learn how to act in an environment that has no ...