A Machine Translation-Powered Chatbot for Public Administration

no code implementations • EAMT 2022 • Dimitra Anastasiou, Anders Ruge, Radu Ion, Svetlana Segărceanu, George Suciu, Olivier Pedretti, Patrick Gratz, Hoorieh Afkari

This paper is about a multilingual chatbot developed for public administration within the CEF funded project ENRICH4ALL.

Chatbot Machine Translation +1

ENRICH4ALL: A First Luxembourgish BERT Model for a Multilingual Chatbot

no code implementations • SIGUL (LREC) 2022 • Dimitra Anastasiou

Machine Translation (MT)-empowered chatbots are not established yet, however, we see an amazing future breaking language barriers and enabling conversation in multiple languages without time-consuming language model building and training, particularly for under-resourced languages.

Chatbot Language Modelling +3

``You move THIS!'': Annotation of Pointing Gestures on Tabletop Interfaces in Low Awareness Situations

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Dimitra Anastasiou, Hoorieh Afkari, Val{\'e}rie Maquil

This paper analyses pointing gestures during low awareness situations occurring in a collaborative problem-solving activity implemented on an interactive tabletop interface.

The European Language Technology Landscape in 2020: Language-Centric and Human-Centric AI for Cross-Cultural Communication in Multilingual Europe

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Georg Rehm, Katrin Marheinecke, Stefanie Hegele, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajič, Khalid Choukri, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Gerhard Backfried, Christoph Prinz, José Manuel Gómez Pérez, Luc Meertens, Paul Lukowicz, Josef van Genabith, Andrea Lösch, Philipp Slusallek, Morten Irgens, Patrick Gatellier, Joachim köhler, Laure Le Bars, Dimitra Anastasiou, Albina Auksoriūtė, Núria Bel, António Branco, Gerhard Budin, Walter Daelemans, Koenraad De Smedt, Radovan Garabík, Maria Gavriilidou, Dagmar Gromann, Svetla Koeva, Simon Krek, Cvetana Krstev, Krister Lindén, Bernardo Magnini, Jan Odijk, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Mike Rosner, Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Inguna Skadiņa, Marko Tadić, Dan Tufiş, Tamás Váradi, Kadri Vider, Andy Way, François Yvon

Multilingualism is a cultural cornerstone of Europe and firmly anchored in the European treaties including full language equality.

Misconceptions

Speech and Gesture Interaction in an Ambient Assisted Living Lab

no code implementations • WS 2012 • Dimitra Anastasiou, Cui Jian, Desislava Zhekova

A Speech and Gesture Spatial Corpus in Assisted Living

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Dimitra Anastasiou

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is the name for a European technology and innovation funding programme.

Gesture Recognition