Spoken dialogue management strategy optimization by means of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is now part of the state of the art. Yet, there is still a clear mismatch between the comp...
This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but ...
Marc Cavazza, Raul Santos de la Camara, Markku Tur...
The present study explores the vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in a corpus of dialogues in Swedish. Cue phrases convey relatively little propositional content, but hav...
Older adults are a challenging user group because their behaviour can be highly variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where dialogue strategies are learn...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...
Sharing life-log information in a social community has many advantages, both for the user and society. But sharing any type of personal information is a threat to privacy. In parti...