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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
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Modelling humanlike conversational behaviour
- 2010
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Ingår i: SLTC 2010. - Linköping, Sweden. ; , s. 9-10
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We have a visionar y goal: to learn enough about human face-to-face interaction that we are able to create an artificial conversational partner that is humanlike. We take the opportunity here to present four new projects inaugurated in 2010, each adding pieces of the puzzle through a shared research focus: modelling interactional aspects of spoken face-to-face communication.
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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
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Project presentation: Spontal : multimodal database of spontaneous dialog
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2009. - Stockholm : Stockholm University. - 9789163348921 - 9789163348938 ; , s. 190-193
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We describe the ongoing Swedish speech database project Spontal: Multimodal database of spontaneous speech in dialog (VR 2006-7482). The project takes as its point of departure the fact that both vocal signals and gesture involving the face and body are important in every-day, face-to-face communicative interaction, and that there is a great need for data with which we more precisely measure these.
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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
(författare)
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Research focus : Interactional aspects of spoken face-to-face communication
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings from Fonetik, Lund, June 2-4, 2010. - Lund, Sweden : Lund University. ; , s. 7-10
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We have a visionary goal: to learn enough about human face-to-face interaction that we are able to create an artificial conversational partner that is human-like. We take the opportunity here to present four new projects inaugurated in 2010, each adding pieces of the puzzle through a shared research focus: interactional aspects of spoken face-to-face communication.
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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
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Speech technology in the European project MonAMI
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of FONETIK 2008. - Gothenburg, Sweden : University of Gothenburg. - 9789197719605 ; , s. 33-36
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper describes the role of speech and speech technology in the European project MonAMI, which aims at “mainstreaming ac-cessibility in consumer goods and services, us-ing advanced technologies to ensure equal ac-cess, independent living and participation for all”. It presents the Reminder, a prototype em-bodied conversational agent (ECA) which helps users to plan activities and to remember what to do. The prototype merges speech technology with other, existing technologies: Google Cal-endar and a digital pen and paper. The solution allows users to continue using a paper calendar in the manner they are used to, whilst the ECA provides notifications on what has been written in the calendar. Users may also ask questions such as “When was I supposed to meet Sara?” or “What’s on my schedule today?”
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Language Report Swedish
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cognitive Technologies. - : Springer Nature. - 1611-2482 .- 2197-6635. ; , s. 219-222
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Swedish speech and language technology (LT) research goes back over 70 years. This has paid off: there is a national research infrastructure, as well as significant research projects, and Swedish is well-endowed with language resources (LRs) and tools. However, there are gaps that need to be filled, especially high-quality goldstandard LRs required by the most recent deep-learning methods. In the future, we would like to see closer collaborations and communication between the “traditional” LT research community and the burgeoning AI field, the establishment of dedicated academic LT training programmes, and national funding for LT research.
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- Carlson, Rolf, et al.
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Towards human-like behaviour in spoken dialog systems
- 2006
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2006). - Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We and others have found it fruitful to assume that users, when interacting with spoken dialogue systems, perceive the systems and their actions metaphorically. Common metaphors include the human metaphor and the interface metaphor (cf. Edlund, Heldner, & Gustafson, 2006). In the interface metaphor, the spoken dialogue system is perceived as a machine interface – often but not always a computer interface. Speech is used to accomplish what would have otherwise been accomplished by some other means of input, such as a keyboard or a mouse. In the human metaphor, on the other hand, the computer is perceived as a creature (or even a person) with humanlike conversational abilities, and speech is not a substitute or one of many alternatives, but rather the primary means of communicating with this creature. We are aware that more “natural ” or human-like behaviour does not automatically make a spoken dialogue system “better ” (i.e. more efficient or more well-liked by its users). Indeed, we are quite convinced that the advantage (or disadvantage) of humanlike behaviour will be highly dependent on the application. However, a dialogue system that is coherent with a human metaphor may profit from a number of characteristics.
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- Edlund, Jens, et al.
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Audience response system based annotation of speech
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2013. - Linköping : Linköping University. - 9789175195827 - 9789175195797 ; , s. 13-16
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Manual annotators are often used to label speech. The task is associated with high costs and with great time consumption. We suggest to reach an increased throughput while maintaining a high measure of experimental control by borrowing from the Audience Response Systems used in the film and television industries, and demonstrate a cost-efficient setup for rapid, plenary annotation of phenomena occurring in recorded speech together with some results from studies we have undertaken to quantify the temporal precision and reliability of such annotations.
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- Edlund, Jens, et al.
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Cocktail : a demonstration of massively multi-component audio environments for illustration and analysis
- 2010
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Ingår i: SLTC 2010, The Third Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2010).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We present MMAE – Massively Multi-component Audio Environments – a new concept in auditory presentation, and Cocktail – a demonstrator built on this technology. MMAE creates a dynamic audio environment by playing a large number of sound clips simultaneously at different locations in a virtual 3D space. The technique utilizes standard soundboards and is based in the Snack Sound Toolkit. The result is an efficient 3D audio environment that can be modified dynamically, in real time. Applications range from the creation of canned as well as online audio environments for games and entertainment to the browsing, analyzing and comparing of large quantities of audio data. We also demonstrate the Cocktail implementation of MMAE using several test cases as examples.
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- Edlund, Jens
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How deeply rooted are the turns we take?
- 2011
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Ingår i: SemDial 2011. ; , s. 196-197
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This poster presents preliminary work investigatingturn-taking in text-based chat with aview to learn something about how deeplyrooted turn-taking is in the human cognition.A connexion is shown between preferred turntakingpatterns and length and type of experiencewith such chats, which supports the ideathat the orderly type of turn-taking found inmost spoken conversations is indeed deeplyrooted, but not more so than that it can beovercome with training in a situation wheresuch turn-taking is not beneficial to the communication.
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- Edlund, Jens
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In search for the conversational homunculus : serving to understand spoken human face-to-face interaction
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the group of people with whom I have worked most closely, we recently attempted to dress our visionary goal in words: “to learn enough about human face-to-face interaction that we are able to create an artificial conversational partner that is humanlike”. The “conversational homunculus” figuring in the title of this book represents this “artificial conversational partner”. The vision is motivated by an urge to test computationally our understandings of how human-human interaction functions, and the bulk of my work leads towards the conversational homunculus in one way or another. This book compiles and summarises that work: it sets out with a presenting and providing background and motivation for the long term research goal of creating a humanlike spoken dialogue system, and continues along the lines of an initial iteration of an iterative research process towards that goal, beginning with the planning and collection of human-human interaction corpora, continuing with the analysis and modelling of the human-human corpora, and ending in the implementation of, experimentation with and evaluation of humanlike components for in human-machine interaction. The studies presented have a clear focus on interactive phenomena at the expense of propositional content and syntactic constructs, and typically investigate the regulation of dialogue flow and feedback, or the establishment of mutual understanding and grounding.
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