This paper describes the virtual humans developed as part of the Mission Rehearsal Exercise project, a virtual reality-based training system. This project is an ambitious exercise...
William R. Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall W. H...
Embedded processors are making it possible for common appliances, such as cable boxes, microwaves and fax machines, to provide even more functionality. Unfortunately, as these app...
Abstract. We present a new approach to the design, development and evaluation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that allows them to index identity through culturally and soc...
During the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, in particular, Information Extraction (IE) [2] which have fueled...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Amit Bagga, Lawrence O'Gorman, Jon L...
Classification of social groups within a given accent is a challenging refinement of language identification (LID) and accent/dialect recognition. The 2001 census of England and W...
Abualsoud Hanani, Martin J. Russell, Michael J. Ca...