Search Results for author: Divesh Lala

Found 12 papers, 1 papers with code

A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara

We demonstrate the moderating abilities of a multi-party attentive listening robot system when multiple people are speaking in turns.

Simultaneous Job Interview System Using Multiple Semi-autonomous Agents

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 Haruki Kawai, Yusuke Muraki, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara

We propose a simultaneous job interview system, where one interviewer can conduct one-on-one interviews with multiple applicants simultaneously by cooperating with the multiple autonomous job interview dialogue systems.

Dialogue Understanding Keyword Extraction +1

An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

The proposed system generates several types of listener responses: backchannels, repeats, elaborating questions, assessments, generic sentimental responses, and generic responses.

Dialogue Understanding

Evaluation of a semi-autonomous attentive listening system with takeover prompting

no code implementations21 Feb 2024 Haruki Kawai, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara

To this end, we propose a semi-autonomous system, where a remote operator can take control of an autonomous attentive listening system in real-time.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

An Analysis of User Behaviors for Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems

no code implementations10 Jan 2024 Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Gabriel Skantze

To address this issue, we propose a framework for indirectly but objectively evaluating systems based on users' behaviors.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Towards Objective Evaluation of Socially-Situated Conversational Robots: Assessing Human-Likeness through Multimodal User Behaviors

no code implementations21 Aug 2023 Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Gabriel Skantze

This paper tackles the challenging task of evaluating socially situated conversational robots and presents a novel objective evaluation approach that relies on multimodal user behaviors.

ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara, Pascale Fung

Over the past year, research in various domains, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), has been accelerated to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, yet such research has just started on dialogue systems.

Designing Precise and Robust Dialogue Response Evaluators

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Tianyu Zhao, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara

Automatic dialogue response evaluator has been proposed as an alternative to automated metrics and human evaluation.

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