In this paper, we propose to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging – an avatar – with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play social nonverbal behaviour, on the basis of textual affect sensing and interpretation of communicative functions conveyed by online conversations. The developed Affect Analysis Model integrated with Instant Messaging (IM) me...

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Information graphics (bar charts, line graphs, etc.) in popular media generally have a discourse goal that contributes to achieving the communicative intent of a multimodal document. This paper presents our work on abstractive summarization of line graphs. Our methodology involves hypothesizing the intended message of a line graph and using it as the core of a summary of the graphic. This core ...

We present an approach to generating multimedia presentations that integrates hierarchical planning to achieve communicative goals, and task-based graphic design. A planning process decomposes domain-specific goals to domain-independent goals, which in turn are realized by media-specific techniques such as task-based graphic design. We apply our approach to developing AutoBrief, a system that s...

While current research in speech synthesis focuses on the generation of various speaking styles or emotions, very few studies have addressed the possibility of including phonetic variations according to the communicative situation of the target speech (sports commentaries, TV news, etc.). However, significant phonetic variations have been observed, depending on various communicative factors (e....

Online communities have evolved beyond the realm of social phenomenon to become important knowledge-sharing media with real economic consequences. However, the sharing of knowledge and the communication of meaning through Internet technology presents many difficulties. This is particularly important in the realm of online finance forums where market sensitive information and disinformation is r...