Browsing Comunicaciones by Author "European Commission"
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A Differentiable Generative Adversarial Network for Open Domain Dialogue
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 ... -
A novel double-hit animal model of schizophrenia: behavioural assessment in male and female mice
Muguruza Millán, Carolina ; Cordero Ruiz, Natalia ; Meana Martínez, José Javier ; Ortega Calvo, Jorge (Elsevier, 2020-11-17)Background: A growing body of evidence support that maternal prenatal infections represent a risk factor for schizophrenia in offspring. Moreover, stressful events during critical neurodevelopmental periods, such as ... -
A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly
Justo Blanco, Raquel ; Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; López Zorrilla, Asier ; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Vázquez Risco, Alain; Torres Barañano, María Inés (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 ... -
Adding dimensional features for emotion recognition on speech
Developing accurate emotion recognition systems requires extracting suitable features of these emotions. In this paper, we propose an original approach of parameters extraction based on the strong, theoretical and empirical, ... -
Behavioral anomaly detection system for the wellbeign assessment and lifestyle support of older people at home
Artola, Garazi; Carrasco, Eduardo; Rebescher, Kristin May; Larburu, Nekane; Berges González, Idoia (Elsevier B.V, 2021)The wellbeing assessment of older people is becoming crucial in today’s era of aging and home care in order to provide the best possible care. New technologies are being used to assist older people at home, which generates ... -
Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates?
De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; López Zorrilla, Asier ; Torres Barañano, María Inés (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- ... -
Contrasting the Emotions identified in Spanish TV debates and in Human-Machine Interactions
De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; Torres Barañano, María Inés (ISCA, 2020-03-24)This work is aimed to contrast the similarities and differences for the emotions identified in two very different scenarios: human-to-human interaction on Spanish TV debates and human-machine interaction with a virtual ... -
Emotion Detection from Speech and Text
De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; Antón, Josu; Carrilero, Mikel; Torres Barañano, María Inés (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-21)The main goal of this work is to carry out automatic emo-tion detection from speech by using both acoustic and textualinformation. For doing that a set of audios were extracted froma TV show were different guests discuss ... -
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López Zorrilla, Asier ; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Justo Blanco, Raquel (Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea, 2019-05)Lan honetan sare neuronalen bidez euskaraz hitz egiten ikasten duen elkarrizketa sistema automatikoa aurkezten dugu. Horretarako, Turingen testaren ideia era konputazionalean inplementatzen duten sare neuronal sortzaile ... -
First Steps to Develop a Corpus of Interactions between Elderly and Virtual Agents in Spanish with Emotion Labels
Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; Torres Barañano, María Inés (SLSP 2019, 2019-10)... -
Introducing FURLEUS: a cross-country, cross-stage, cross-level comparison of Friulian and Basque teachers’ language attitudes and motivation in search of best practices
The main aim of this contribution is to introduce the FURLEUS project, whose acronym stands for FURLan (i.e., Friulian) + EUSkara (i.e., Basque) and which is funded within the Horizon 2020—Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions—European ... -
Iruzurrezko portaeren detekzioa crowd motako etiketazioan
De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; López Zorrilla, Asier ; Justo Blanco, Raquel (Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea, 2019-05)This work aims at detecting low quality labels in crowdsourcing annotation tasks. We validate our proposal carrying out experiments in a difficult and subjective task: emotion recognition. We have developed several measures ... -
Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
Raman, Sneha; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Serrano García, Luis (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)Oesophageal speakers face a multitude of challenges, such asdifficulty in basic everyday communication and inability to in-teract with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify the diffi-culty involved in understanding ... -
LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees
Serrano García, Luis; Tavarez Arriba, David; Sarasola, Xabier; Raman, Sneha; Saratxaga Couceiro, Ibon ; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)This paper describes a voice conversion system designed withthe aim of improving the intelligibility and pleasantness of oe-sophageal voices. Two different systems have been built, oneto transform the spectral magnitude ... -
Mental Health Monitoring from Speech and Language
Zubiaga Amar, Irune; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; Menchaca, Ignacio; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel (ISCA, 2022)Concern for mental health has increased in the last years due to its impact in people life quality and its consequential effect on healthcare systems. Automatic systems that can help in the diagnosis, symptom monitoring, ... -
Modelado electro-térmico de un pack de baterías cilíndrico de ion de litio para el desarrollo de sistemas de gestión térmica en vehículos eléctricos
Sainz de la Maza Escobal, Ane; Gelbentzu, Ane; Ibarra Basabe, Edorta ; Arteta, Beñat; Otaola Pasamón, Eneko; Trancho Olabarri, Elena (2024-07)Los packs de baterías de ion de litio (Li-ion) utilizados en los vehículos eléctricos e híbridos actuales son especialmente sensibles a las condiciones ambientales. Para garantizar un funcionamiento adecuado de los mismos ... -
Multimodal feature evaluation and fusion for emotional well-being monitorization
Mental health is a global issue that plays an important roll in the overall well-being of a person. Because of this, it is important to preserve it, and conversational systems have proven to be helpful in this task. This ... -
Radio-aware service-level scheduling to minimize downlink traffic delay through Mobile Edge Computing
One of the most challenging problems in mobile broadband networks is how to assign the available radio resources among the different mobile users. Traditionally, research proposals are either speci c to some type of traffic ... -
Speech emotion recognition in Spanish TV Debates
Zubiaga Amar, Irune; Justo Blanco, Raquel ; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ; Torres Barañano, María Inés (ISCA, 2022)Emotion recognition from speech is an active field of study that can help build more natural human-machine interaction systems. Even though the advancement of deep learning technology has brought improvements in this task, ... -
System architecture and deployment scenarios for SESAME: Small cEllS coordinAtion for Multi-tenancy and Edge services
Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Xylouris, George; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Kourtis, Anastasios; Fajardo Portillo, José Oscar; Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad; Albanese, Antonino; Mouratidis, Haralambos (2016-05-17)The surge of the Internet traffic with exabytes of data flowing over operators mobile networks has created the need to rethink the paradigms behind the design of the mobile network architecture. The inadequacy of the 4G ...