This paper describes lessons learned in developing the linguistic, cognitive, emotional, and gestural models underlying virtual human behavior in a training application designed t...
Robert C. Hubal, Geoffrey A. Frank, Curry I. Guinn
Abstract. Continuous and synchronized whole-body motions are essential for achieving believable autonomous virtual humans in interactive applications. We present a new motion contr...
During face-to-face conversation, people naturally integrate speech, gestures and higher level language interpretations to predict the right time to start talking or to give backc...
We propose a corpus-based probabilistic framework to extract hidden common syntax across languages from non-parallel multilingual corpora in an unsupervised fashion. For this purp...
We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank...