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Cognitive States and Types of Nods
In this paper we will study how different types of nods are related to the cognitive states of the listener.
Evaluating Large Language Models in Semantic Parsing for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
Conversational question answering systems often rely on semantic parsing to enable interactive information retrieval, which involves the generation of structured database queries from a natural language input.
From Data to Dialogue: Leveraging the Structure of Knowledge Graphs for Conversational Exploratory Search
Exploratory search is an open-ended information retrieval process that aims at discovering knowledge about a topic or domain rather than searching for a specific answer or piece of information.
Voice-Based Conversational Agents and Knowledge Graphs for Improving News Search in Assisted Living
By leveraging graph databases to semantically structure news data and implementing an intuitive voice-based interface, our system can help care-dependent people to easily discover relevant news articles and give personalized recommendations.
Analysis of Body Behaviours in Human-Human and Human-Robot Interactions
Regarding head gesture, even though there was no difference in the frequency of head gestures between English speakers and Japanese speakers in HH, Japanese speakers produced slightly more nodding during the robot{'}s speaking than English speakers in HR.
The AICO Multimodal Corpus -- Data Collection and Preliminary Analyses
The paper reports on the preliminary studies on the corpus, concerning the participants{'} eye-gaze and gesturing behaviours, which were chosen as objective measures to study differences in their multimodal behaviour patterns with a human and a robot partner.
Staircase Network: structural language identification via hierarchical attentive units
Language recognition system is typically trained directly to optimize classification error on the target language labels, without using the external, or meta-information in the estimation of the model parameters.
What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias
We demonstrate a bilingual robot application, WikiTalk, that can talk fluently in both English and Japanese about almost any topic using information from English and Japanese Wikipedias.
Double Topic Shifts in Open Domain Conversations: Natural Language Interface for a Wikipedia-based Robot Application
The user selects topics that are of interest to her, and the system builds a list of potential topics, anticipated to be the next topic, by the links in the article and by the keywords extracted from the article.
Open-domain Interaction and Online Content in the Sami Language
This paper presents data collection and collaborative community events organised within the project Digital Natives on the North Sami language.
Constructive Interaction for Talking about Interesting Topics
The paper discusses mechanisms for topic management in conversations, concentrating on interactions where the interlocutors react to each other's presentation of new information and construct a shared context in which to exchange information about interesting topics.
Feedback in Nordic First-Encounters: a Comparative Study
In particular, Danes use Down-nods more frequently than Finns and Swedes, while Swedes use Up-nods more frequently than Finns and Danes.
Investigating Engagement - intercultural and technological aspects of the collection, analysis, and use of the Estonian Multiparty Conversational video data
In this paper we describe the goals of the Estonian corpus collection and analysis activities, and introduce the recent collection of Estonian First Encounters data.
Multimodal Corpus of Multi-party Conversations in Second Language
We collected a multimodal corpus of multi-party conversations in English as the second language to investigate the differences in communication styles.
