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CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding Referring Expressions Involving Perceptual Grouping
This paper deals with understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. The ability to use referring expressions is important for conversational agents aimed at r...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Takenobu Tokuna...
IAT
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Affect as Information about Users' Attitudes to Conversational Agents
This paper presents a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. In the method, information about users’ attitudes and sentiments to conversational agents a...
Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi,...
CIMCA
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Affect-as-Information Approach to a Sentiment Analysis Based Evaluation of Conversational Agents
In this paper we propose a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. The method is based on analyzing the user’s affect conveyed in utterances. From analyz...
Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi,...
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp