When glancing at a magazine, or browsing the Internet, we are continuously being exposed to photographs. Despite of this overflow of visual information, humans are extremely good...
Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which th...
The immense prosodic variation of natural conversational speech makes it challenging to predict which words are prosodically prominent in this genre. In this paper, we examine a n...
Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha ...
In this paper we describe the graphical realization and authoring of a semi-autonomous animated persona, called a Digital Puppet. Digital Puppets augment on-line educational materi...
Erin Shaw, Catherine LaBore, Yuan-Chun Chiu, W. Le...