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...
In ubiquitous computing environments like smart home, residents can conveniently enjoy various home entertainments, such as watching TV, listening music, etc, through invisible an...
During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...
In this paper, we propose a scheme for annotating utterance-level units in Japanese dialogs, which emerged from an analysis of the interrelationship among four schemes, i) inter-p...
Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Kiku...