Zara Returns: Improved Personality Induction and Adaptation by an Empathetic Virtual Agent

no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Farhad Bin Siddique, Onno Kampman, Yang Yang, Anik Dey, Pascale Fung

Word Embeddings

Zara: A Virtual Interactive Dialogue System Incorporating Emotion, Sentiment and Personality Recognition

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique, Ruixi Lin, Yang Yang, Dario Bertero, Yan Wan, Ricky Ho Yin Chan, Chien-Sheng Wu

Zara, or {`}Zara the Supergirl{'} is a virtual robot, that can exhibit empathy while interacting with an user, with the aid of its built in facial and emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and speech module.

Emotion Recognition Feature Engineering +3

Zara The Supergirl: An Empathetic Personality Recognition System

no code implementations • NAACL 2016 • Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique, Ruixi Lin, Yang Yang, Yan Wan, Ho Yin Ricky Chan

Emotion Recognition Sentiment Analysis +1

Towards Empathetic Human-Robot Interactions

no code implementations • 13 May 2016 • Pascale Fung, Dario Bertero, Yan Wan, Anik Dey, Ricky Ho Yin Chan, Farhad Bin Siddique, Yang Yang, Chien-Sheng Wu, Ruixi Lin

Although research on empathetic robots is still in the early stage, we described our approach using signal processing techniques, sentiment analysis and machine learning algorithms to make robots that can "understand" human emotion.

Sentiment Analysis

A Hindi-English Code-Switching Corpus

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Anik Dey, Pascale Fung

The aim of this paper is to investigate the rules and constraints of code-switching (CS) in Hindi-English mixed language data.

Using English Acoustic Models for Hindi Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • WS 2012 • Anik Dey, Ying Li, Pascale Fung

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1