To supplement existing forms of communication such as telephone and e-mail, this research proposes a new method of communicating “awareness” between people who are separated b...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...
Politeness may play a role in tutorial interaction, including promoting learner motivation and avoiding negative affect. Politeness theory can account for this as a means of mitiga...
W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Elisabeth Andr...
This paper describes recent advances at LIMSI in Mandarin Chinese speech-to-text transcription. A number of novel approaches were introduced in the different system components. Th...
Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Viet-Bac Le, Ilya Op...
Metaphorical and contextual affect detection from open-ended text-based dialogue is challenging but essential for the building of effective intelligent user interfaces. In this pa...