Multimodal conversational dialogue systems consisting of numerous software components create challenges for the underlying software architecture and development practices. Typical...
Raul Santos de la Camara, Markku Turunen, Jaakko H...
We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the `middleware' layer in these systems, which takes ca...
David Schlangen, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier,...
We use automatically extracted acoustic features to detect speech which is generated under stress, achieving 76.24% accuracy with a binary logistic regression. Our data are task-o...
Matthew Frampton, Sandeep Sripada, Ricardo Augusto...
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...
Older adults are a challenging user group because their behaviour can be highly variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where dialogue strategies are learn...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...