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Analysis of the interaction between elderly people and a simulated virtual coach
(Springer, 2020-12)
The EMPATHIC project develops and validates new interaction paradigms for personalized virtual coaches (VC) to promote healthy and independent aging. To this end, the work presented in this paper is aimed to analyze the ...
Automatic Identification of Emotional Information in Spanish TV Debates and Human-Machine Interactions
(MDPI, 2022-02-11)
Automatic emotion detection is a very attractive field of research that can help build more natural human–machine interaction systems. However, several issues arise when real scenarios are considered, such as the tendency ...
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- ...
Perceptual borderline for balancing multi-class spontaneous emotional data
(IEEE, 2021-04-07)
Speech is a behavioural biometric signal that can provide important information to understand the human intends as well as their emotional status. The paper is centered on the speech-based identification of the seniors’s ...
Detection of Sarcasm and Nastiness: New Resources for Spanish Language
(Springer, 2018-06-29)
The main goal of this work is to provide the cognitive computing community with valuable resources to analyze and simulate the intentionality and/or emotions embedded in the language employed in social media. Specifically, ...
User-Aware Dialogue Management Policies over Attributed Bi-Automata
(Springer, 2018-07-30)
Designing dialogue policies that take user behavior into account is complicated due to user vari- ability and behavioral uncertainty. Attributed Prob- abilistic Finite State Bi-Automata (A-PFSBA) have proven to be a promising ...