5 citations · 7 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers
Towards Objective Evaluation of Socially-Situated Conversational Robots: Assessing Human-Likeness through Multimodal User Behaviors
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi +2
This paper tackles the challenging task of evaluating socially situated conversational robots and presents a novel objective evaluation approach that relies on multimodal user beha…
Reasoning before Responding: Integrating Commonsense-based Causality Explanation for Empathetic Response Generation
Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, Chenhui Chu +1
Recent approaches to empathetic response generation try to incorporate commonsense knowledge or reasoning about the causes of emotions to better understand the user's experiences a…
I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue
Yuanchao Li, Koji Inoue, Leimin Tian +5
Current Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) often serve as passive listeners that respond only after receiving user speech. To achieve human-like dialogue, we propose a novel future pre…
ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine
Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya +3
Over the past year, research in various domains, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), has been accelerated to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, yet such research has jus…
Intelligent Conversational Android ERICA Applied to Attentive Listening and Job Interview
Tatsuya Kawahara, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala
Following the success of spoken dialogue systems (SDS) in smartphone assistants and smart speakers, a number of communicative robots are developed and commercialized. Compared with…
Source and Target Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation for End-to-end Speech Translation
Hirofumi Inaguma, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shinji Watanabe
A conventional approach to improving the performance of end-to-end speech translation (E2E-ST) models is to leverage the source transcription via pre-training and joint training wi…
Speech Corpus of Ainu Folklore and End-to-end Speech Recognition for Ainu Language
Kohei Matsuura, Sei Ueno, Masato Mimura +2
Ainu is an unwritten language that has been spoken by Ainu people who are one of the ethnic groups in Japan. It is recognized as critically endangered by UNESCO and archiving and d…