We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
We address appropriate user modeling in order to generate cooperative responses to each user in spoken dialogue systems. Unlike previous studies that focus on user’s knowledge o...
The rise of email and instant messaging as important tools in the professional workplace has created changes in how we communicate. One such change is that these media tend to red...
This paper proposes a method of generating F0 contours from natural F0 segmental shapes for speech synthesis. The extracted shapes of F0 units are basically kept unchanged, by eli...
With the goal of supporting the knowledge circulation and creation process in a society, we have studied story-based communication in a network community. On the basis of this res...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Toshihiro Murayama, Masashi Okam...