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      A Dialogue-Act Taxonomy for a Virtual Coach Designed to Improve the Life of Elderly 

      Montenegro Portillo, César; López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; Santana Hermida, Roberto ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Lozano Alonso, José Antonio; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (MDPI, 2019-07-11)
      This paper presents a dialogue act taxonomy designed for the development of a conversational agent for elderly. The main goal of this conversational agent is to improve life quality of the user by means of coaching sessions ...
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      A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly 

      Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Vázquez Risco, Alain; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (Springer, 2020-10-25)
      In this work, a Spanish corpus that was developed, within the EMPATHIC project (http://www.empathic-project.eu/) framework, is presented. It was designed for building a dialogue system capable of talking to elderly people ...
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      Dialogue Management and Language Generation for a Robust Conversational Virtual Coach: Validation and User Study 

      Vázquez Risco, Alain; López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (MDPI, 2023-01-27)
      Designing human–machine interactive systems requires cooperation between different disciplines is required. In this work, we present a Dialogue Manager and a Language Generator that are the core modules of a Voice-based ...
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      EMPATHIC: Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly 

      López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Irastorza Manso, Jon; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2018-09)
      The EMPATHIC project will research, innovate, explore and validatenew paradigms and platforms, laying the foundation for future generations of Per-sonalised Virtual Coaches to assist elderly people living independently ...
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      Spoken dialogue systems: architectures and applications 

      Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel (2017-11-13)
      Technology and technological devices have become habitual and omnipresent. Humans need to learn tocommunicate with all kind of devices. Until recently humans needed to learn how the devices expressthemselves to communicate ...
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      The EMPATHIC Project: Mid-term Achievements 

      Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; Montenegro Portillo, César; Santana Hermida, Roberto ORCID; Vázquez Risco, Alain; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Lozano Alonso, José Antonio; Schlögl, Stephan; Chollet, Gérard; Dugan, Nazim; Irvine, Matthew; Glackin, Neil; Pickard, Colin; Esposito, Anna; Cordasco, Gennaro; Troncone, A; Petrovska-Delacretaz, Dijana; Mtibaa, Aymen; Hmani, Mohamed; Korsnes, Maria S.; Martinussen, Liva J.; Escalera, Sergio; Palmero Cantariño, Cristina; Deroo, Olivier; Gordeeva, Olga; Tenorio-Laranga, Jofre; Gonzalez-Fraile, Eduardo; Fernández-Ruanova, Begoña; González Pinto Arrillaga, Ana María ORCID (ACM Digital Library, 2019-08-18)
      The goal of active aging is to promote changes in the elderly community so as to maintain an active, independent and socially-engaged lifestyle. Technological advancements currently provide the necessary tools to foster ...