Building animated conversational agents requires developing a fine-grained analysis of the motions and meanings available to interlocutors in face-to-face conversation and implementing strategies for using these motions and meanings to communicate effectively. In this paper, we sketch our efforts to characterize people’s facial displays of uncertainty in face-to-face conversation. We analyze em...

In this paper, we present a conversational model that incorporates both context and participant role for two-party conversations. Different architectures are explored for integrating participant role and context information into a Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) language model. The conversational model can function as a language model or a language generation model. Experiments on the Ubuntu Dial...

Speakers and listeners have been shown to use phonetic cues to help them in tracking the ongoing structure of conversational interaction, but fragmentation between qualitative and quantitative research means that the forms and functions of these cues have been given varying characterizations. The current study explores prosodic variation in contrastive structures in conversational data, using a...

This book has appeared in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: monographs from 50 up to 150 pages about specific topics subjects computational linguistics. The intended audience of are researchers and graduate students NLP, AI, related fields. I define myself as a linguist; my review is perspective “random” linguistics researcher wanting learn more this topic or looking...

In 2019, media reports raised awareness about privacy and security violations in Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) like Alexa, Siri Google. Users report that they perceive CUI as creepy are concerned their privacy. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) several other laws across the globe, give users right to control processing of data, for example by requesting deletion data...

Abstract This essay presents an analysis of the conversational role disambiguation, with special attention to disambiguating parentheticals such as 'bats, furry animals, are not easy find'. The proposes enriched representation states pairs interpretation function and standard common belief, it represents disambiguations within ensuing framework, and, on basis these conceptual tools, a systemati...

The paper addresses the question of rhythmic structuring of conversational interaction. Conversational speech requires active cooperation and coordination of the behavior of two or more speakers. Previous research indicates that one of the mechanisms used by speakers to regulate conversational interaction, is close monitoring and adaptation to rhythmic patterns. When this does not function prop...