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08/29/2023
A Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank Approach to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom
We introduce a novel re-ranking model that aims to augment the functiona...
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07/10/2023
On the Computational Modeling of Meaning: Embodied Cognition Intertwined with Emotion
This document chronicles this author's attempt to explore how words come...
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07/06/2023
Vision Language Transformers: A Survey
Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating c...
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03/15/2023
Who's in Charge? Roles and Responsibilities of Decision-Making Components in Conversational Robots
Software architectures for conversational robots typically consist of mu...
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02/23/2023
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition in an Incremental Setting
The increasing reliability of automatic speech recognition has prolifera...
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02/23/2023
Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn
Using online information discovery as a case study, in this position pap...
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08/24/2021
The State of SLIVAR: What's next for robots, human-robot interaction, and (spoken) dialogue systems?
We synthesize the reported results and recommendations of recent worksho...
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06/30/2021
An Analysis of the Recent Visibility of the SigDial Conference
Automated speech and text interfaces are continuing to improve, resultin...
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05/10/2021
Language Acquisition is Embodied, Interactive, Emotive: a Research Proposal
Humans' experience of the world is profoundly multimodal from the beginn...
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05/07/2021
CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology
Past and current research has typically focused on ensuring that search ...
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11/08/2019
Composing and Embedding the Words-as-Classifiers Model of Grounded Semantics
The words-as-classifiers model of grounded lexical semantics learns a se...
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07/11/2019
Incrementalizing RASA's Open-Source Natural Language Understanding Pipeline
As spoken dialogue systems and chatbots are gaining more widespread adop...
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09/29/2017
Symbol, Conversational, and Societal Grounding with a Toy Robot
Essential to meaningful interaction is grounding at the symbolic, conver...
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