This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
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...
We describe formal steps in the design of iState, a tool for translating statecharts into programming languages. Currently iState generates code in either Java, or the Abstract Mac...
A framework for translating speaker's meaning or intention is proposed based on two notions, Illocutionary Force Types (IFTs) for analysis and Decision Parameters (DPs) for g...
Several medical natural language processing (NLP) systems currently base on ontologies that provide the domain knowledge. But, relationships between concepts defined in ontologies ...