In this paper, we present SmartCal, a calendar assistant that suggests appointment attributes, such as time, day, duration, etc., given any combination of initial user input attri...
Learning by human tutelage means that a human being guides the attention of a robot or agent in order to teach it a given concept. This kind of learning is very important to devel...
Claudio A. Policastro, Roseli A. F. Romero, Giovan...
In the context of natural multimodal dialogue systems, we address the challenging issue of the definition of cooperative answers in an appropriate multimodal form. Highlighting th...
Meriam Horchani, Benjamin Caron, Laurence Nigay, F...
A key to improving at any task is frequent feedback from people whose opinions we care about: our family, friends, mentors, and the experts. However, such input is not usually ava...
This paper presents a novel way for assessing the affective qualities of natural language and a scenario for its use. Previous approaches to textual affect sensing have employed k...