This paper introduces a new class called hang yourself (HY) arguments into the theory of defeasible argumentation. The novelty of such arguments is that they are inherently destru...
This paper describes an initial approach to emotional speech synthesis in Catalan based on a diphone concatenation TTS system. The main goal of this work is to develop a simple pro...
This paper reports the results of a preliminary cross-evaluation experiment run in the framework of the European research project PF-Star1, with the double aim of evaluating the po...
Jonas Beskow, Loredana Cerrato, Piero Cosi, Erica ...
We present our current state of development regarding animated agents applicable to affective dialogue systems. A new set of tools are under development to support the creation of...
In this paper we describe how to generate affective dialogs for multiple virtual characters based on a combination of both automatically generated and pre-scripted scenes. This is ...