Search Results for author: Nigel Ward

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog

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.

Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus

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.

Using Interaction Style Dimensions to Characterize Spoken Dialog Corpora

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.

Prosody: Models, Methods, and Applications

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.

Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop

no code implementations11 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.

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