Category: Natural Language Generation (NLG)

When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions

Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pages 572–583, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Virtual Peers

How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?

Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 877–892, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Virtual Peers

Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants

Tsai, V., Baumann, T., Pecune, F., & Cassell, J. (2018). Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology.

  • Architectures
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Evaluation
  • Implementation
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent

Matsuyama, M., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, R., Romero, O., Akoju, S., Cassell, J. (2016, September). Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent, 17th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

  • Architectures
  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Implementation
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Rapport
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

Validating the Web-Based Evaluation of NLG Systems

Koller, A., Striegnitz, K., Byron, D., Cassell, J., Dale, R., Dalzel-Job, S., Oberlander, J., Moore, J. (2009) “Validating the Web-Based Evaluation of NLG Systems” in Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Aug 2-7, Singapore.

  • Evaluation
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions

Cassell, Justine, Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul, Ferriman, Kim & Striegnitz, K . (2007) “Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions.” In T. Nishida (ed.) Conversational Informatics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 133-160

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Towards Integrated Microplanning of Language and Iconic Gesture for Multimodal Output

Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul and Cassell, Justine. (2004). “Towards Integrated Microplanning of Language and Iconic Gesture for Multimodal Output.”Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2004. Oct. 14-15, Penn State University, State College, PA.

  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions

Striegnitz, Kristina, Tepper, Paul, Lovett, Andrew, & Cassell, Justine (2005) “Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions” . In Proceedings of Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space). October 23-25, 2005; Delmenhorst, Germany

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Direction-Giving
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Content in Context: Generating Language and Iconic Gesture without a Gestionary

Tepper, P., Kopp, S., Cassell, J. (2004) “Content in Context: Generating Language and Iconic Gesture without a Gestionary”Proceedings of the Workshop on Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs at AAMAS ’04.

  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Gesture
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)