The term “interactivity” has been defined in numerous ways in the context of communications, but a definition of interactivity as an instrumentally measurable parameter of conversations is still missing. In this paper, we approach this issue by applying a parametric analysis to telephone conversations recorded during speech quality tests. To this end, we extract the basic conversational paramet...

During interpersonal conversation, both children and adults adapt the basic acoustic-prosodic features of their speech to converge with those of their conversational partner. In this study, 7-to-10year-old children interacted with a conversational interface in which animated characters used text-to-speech output (TTS) to answer questions about marine biology. Analysis of children’s speech to di...

Abstract Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes an intuitive way. With the latest advances voice-controlled devices, natural language processing, AI general, such received increased attention recent years. Technically, conversational recommenders are usually complex multi-component applications often...

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to extract the arguments for each predicate in an input sentence. Traditional SRL can fail analyze dialogues because it only works on every single sentence, while ellipsis and anaphora frequently occur dialogues. To address this problem, we propose conversational task, where argument be dialogue participants, a phrase history or current As existing datasets are...

Zusammenfassung Der folgende Beitrag zeigt auf, wie bestehende Disziplinen und Methoden aus den Bereichen der Psychologie Wirtschaftsinformatik miteinander kombiniert erweitert werden, damit Conversational Bots, auch als Chat- oder Voicebots bekannt, nicht nur natürliche Sprache verstehen verarbeiten können, sondern personalisiert auf die Useranfragen eingehen können. Dies alles mit dem Ziel, m...

This study aims to investigate which and what motions of lifelike conversational agents play essential role to make the agents natural. Some preliminary experimental results and future plan are shown. Embodying conversational agents is intended to imitate paralinguistic channel or back channel which plays important role in human-human conversation. Although there have been not a few lifelike co...

Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) are a group of conditions with onset in the developmental period characterized by deficits cognitive and social areas. Conversational agents have been increasingly explored to support therapeutic interventions for people NDD. This survey provides structured view crucial design features these systems, types goals they address, empirical methods adopted their ev...