In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
This paper presents Latent Semantic Googling, a variant of Landauer’s Latent Semantic Indexing that uses the Google search engine to judge the semantic closeness of sets of word...
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
This paper presents a comparison of two similar dialogue analysis tasks: segmenting real-life medical team meetings into patient case discussions, and segmenting scenario-based me...
Word prediction can be used for enhancing the communication ability of persons with speech and language impairments. In this work, we explore two methods of adapting a language mo...
Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, Kathleen F. McCoy, ...