no code implementations • 18 Feb 2024 • Zining Wang, Paul Reisert, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
We develop a custom, state-of-the-art emotion recognition model to dynamically select the robot's tone of voice and utilize emojis from LLM output as cues for generating robot actions.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2024 • Matouš Jelínek, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
This study presents an empirical investigation into the design and impact of autonomous dialogues in human-robot interaction for behavior change coaching.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2023 • Tung Nguyen, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
Recently, research in human-robot interaction began to consider a robot's influence at the group level.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2020 • Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Randy Gomez
We present a collaborative storytelling system which works with a human storyteller to create a story by generating new utterances based on the story so far.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2020 • Jianyu Fan, Eric Nichols, Daniel Tompkins, Ana Elisa Mendez Mendez, Benjamin Elizalde, Philippe Pasquier
State of the art sound event retrieval models have focused on single-label audio recordings, with only one sound event occurring, rather than on multi-label audio recordings (i. e., multiple sound events occur in one recording).
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Leon Derczynski, Eric Nichols, Marieke van Erp, Nut Limsopatham
This shared task focuses on identifying unusual, previously-unseen entities in the context of emerging discussions.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani
We address the problem of acquiring the ontological categories of unknown terms through implicit confirmation in dialogues.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Fabrice Dugas, Eric Nichols
In this paper, we describe the DeepNNNER entry to The 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT) Shared Task {\#}2: Named Entity Recognition in Twitter.
14 code implementations • TACL 2016 • Jason P. C. Chiu, Eric Nichols
Named entity recognition is a challenging task that has traditionally required large amounts of knowledge in the form of feature engineering and lexicons to achieve high performance.
Ranked #27 on Named Entity Recognition (NER) on Ontonotes v5 (English)