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      A Differentiable Generative Adversarial Network for Open Domain Dialogue 

      López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (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 ...
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      A novel double-hit animal model of schizophrenia: behavioural assessment in male and female mice 

      Muguruza Millán, Carolina ORCID; Cordero Ruiz, Natalia ORCID; Meana Martínez, José Javier ORCID; 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 ...
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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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      Adding dimensional features for emotion recognition on speech 

      Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID (IEEE, 2020-10-20)
      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, ...
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      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 ...
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      Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates? 

      De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (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- ...
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      Contrasting the Emotions identified in Spanish TV debates and in Human-Machine Interactions 

      De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Ben Letaifa Zouari, Leila; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (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 ...
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      Emotion Detection from Speech and Text 

      De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Antón, Josu; Carrilero, Mikel; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (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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      Euskaraz hitz egiten ikasten duten makina autodidaktak 

      López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID (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 ...
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      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 ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (SLSP 2019, 2019-10)
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      Introducing FURLEUS: a cross-country, cross-stage, cross-level comparison of Friulian and Basque teachers’ language attitudes and motivation in search of best practices 

      Bier, Ada; Lasagabaster Herrarte, David ORCID (Forum, 2023)
      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 ...
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      Iruzurrezko portaeren detekzioa crowd motako etiketazioan 

      De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; López Zorrilla, Asier ORCID; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID (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 ...
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      Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech 

      Raman, Sneha; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ORCID; Navas Cordón, Eva ORCID; 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 ...
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      LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees 

      Serrano García, Luis; Tavarez Arriba, David; Sarasola, Xabier; Raman, Sneha; Saratxaga Couceiro, Ibon ORCID; Navas Cordón, Eva ORCID; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ORCID (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 ...
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      Mental Health Monitoring from Speech and Language 

      Zubiaga Amar, Irune; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; Menchaca, Ignacio; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID (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, ...
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      Multimodal feature evaluation and fusion for emotional well-being monitorization 

      Zubiaga Amar, Irune; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID (Springer, 2022-04-26)
      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 ...
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      Radio-aware service-level scheduling to minimize downlink traffic delay through Mobile Edge Computing 

      Fajardo Portillo, José Oscar; Taboada Puente, Ianire ORCID; Liberal Malaina, Fidel (ICTS, 2016)
      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 ...
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      Speech emotion recognition in Spanish TV Debates 

      Zubiaga Amar, Irune; Justo Blanco, Raquel ORCID; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel ORCID; Torres Barañano, María Inés ORCID (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, ...
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      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 ...
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      Transfer learning in hierarchical dialogue topic classification with neural networks 

      Montenegro Portillo, César; Santana Hermida, Roberto ORCID; Lozano Alonso, José Antonio (IEEE, 2020-09-28)
      Knowledge transfer between tasks can significantly improve the efficiency of machine learning algorithms. In supervised natural language understanding problems, this sort of improvement is critical since the availability ...