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A Dialogue-Act Taxonomy for a Virtual Coach Designed to Improve the Life of Elderly
(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 ...
A Differentiable Generative Adversarial Network for Open Domain Dialogue
(2019-04)
This work presents a novel methodology to train open domain neural dialogue systems within the framework of Generative Adversarial Networks with gradient-based optimization methods. We avoid the non-differentiability related ...
Corrective Focus Detection in Italian Speech Using Neural Networks
(Óbuda University, 2018-11)
The corrective focus is a particular kind of prosodic prominence where the speaker is intended to correct or to emphasize a concept. This work develops an Artificial Cognitive System (ACS) based on Recurrent ...
Audio Embeddings help to learn better dialogue policies
(IEEE, 2021-12)
Neural transformer architectures have gained a lot of interest for text-based dialogue management in the last few years. They have shown high learning capabilities for open domain dialogue with huge amounts of data and ...
Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates?
(IEEE, 2019)
Decoding emotional states from multimodal signals is an increasingly active domain, within the framework of affective computing, which aims to a better understanding of Human-Human Communication as well as to improve Human- ...
A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly
(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 ...
Audio Embedding-Aware Dialogue Policy Learning
(IEEE, 2022-11-30)
Following the success of Natural Language Processing (NLP) transformers pretrained via self-supervised learning, similar models have been proposed recently for speech processing such as Wav2Vec2, HuBERT and UniSpeech-SAT. ...
EMPATHIC: Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly
(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 ...
A multilingual neural coaching model with enhanced long-term dialogue structure
(ACM, 2022-07-12)
In this work we develop a fully data-driven conversational agent capable of carrying out motivational coach-
ing sessions in Spanish, French, Norwegian, and English. Unlike the majority of coaching, and in general
well-being ...
Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Decision-Making in an Emotional Spontaneous Speech Task
(MDPI, 2023-01-11)
In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-making involved in the identification of emotions in spontaneous speech. The selected task consists of Spanish TV debates, which ...