no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry, Katherine Atwell, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Felix Gervits, Zhao Han, Mert Inan, Michael Johnston, Raj Korpan, Diane Litman, Matthew Marge, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Shiwali Mohan, Raymond Mooney, Natalie Parde, Jivko Sinapov, Angela Stewart, Matthew Stone, Stefanie Tellex, Tom Williams
The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected.
1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2024 • Maneesh Bilalpur, Mert Inan, Dorsa Zeinali, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Malihe Alikhani
To improve the rapport-building capabilities of embodied agents we annotated backchannel smiles in videos of intimate face-to-face conversations over topics such as mental health, illness, and relationships.
no code implementations • 5 Jul 2022 • Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni, Yue Chen, Mert Inan, Elizabeth Nielsen, Shahab Raji, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone
Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific communicative setting and discourse constraints they face.
