It has long been considered a desirable goal to be able to construct an intelligible speech signal merely by observing the talker in the act of speaking. Past methods at performin...
Arthur R. Toth, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Bhiksha Raj, ...
The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...
Although there are high expectations for collaborative discussion and on-line learning, existing systems for on-line discussion and chat facilities are not fully effective in prom...
Data sparseness is an ever dominating problem in automatic emotion recognition. Using artificially generated speech for training or adapting models could potentially ease this: t...
The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specif...