Corpus-based dialogue systems rely on statistical models, whose parameters are inferred from annotated dialogues. The dialogues are usually annotated using Dialogue Acts (DA), and...
Floor control is a scheme used by people to organize speaking turns in multi-party conversations. Identifying the floor control shifts is important for understanding a conversati...
Many user interfaces, from graphic design programs to navigation aids in cars, share a virtual space with the user. Such applications are often ideal candidates for speech interfa...
Abstract—Natural language understanding involves the simultaneous consideration of a large number of different sources of information. Traditional methods employed in language an...
The paper begins with a response to the nature of contemporary artists relationships to how computers have permeated the fine art domain and how they affect the creative process. ...