no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon
We collected a corpus of human-human task-oriented dialogs rich in dissatisfaction and built a model that used prosodic features to predict when the user was likely dissatisfied.
no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 • Nigel Ward
here is increasing interest in modeling style choices in dialog, for example for enabling dialog systems to adapt to their users.
no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Nigel Ward
The construction of spoken dialog systems today relies heavily on appropriate corpora, but corpus selection is more an art than a science.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Nigel Ward, Gina-Anne Levow
Prosody is essential in human interaction, enabling people to show interest, establish rapport, efficiently convey nuances of attitude or intent, and so on.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2020 • Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel Ward
Fourth, more powerful adaptation methods are needed, to enable robots to communicate in new environments, for new tasks, and with diverse user populations, without extensive re-engineering or the collection of massive training data.