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Multilingual and Continuous Backchannel Prediction: A Cross-lingual Study
Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Yahui Fu +5
We present a multilingual, continuous backchannel prediction model for Japanese, English, and Chinese, and use it to investigate cross-linguistic timing behavior. The model is Tran…
Real-time Generation of Various Types of Nodding for Avatar Attentive Listening System
Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala +2
In human dialogue, nonverbal information such as nodding and facial expressions is as crucial as verbal information, and spoken dialogue systems are also expected to express such n…
Prompt-Guided Turn-Taking Prediction
Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Yahui Fu +4
Turn-taking prediction models are essential components in spoken dialogue systems and conversational robots. Recent approaches leverage transformer-based architectures to predict s…
An LLM Benchmark for Addressee Recognition in Multi-modal Multi-party Dialogue
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers +2
Handling multi-party dialogues represents a significant step for advancing spoken dialogue systems, necessitating the development of tasks specific to multi-party interactions. To…
Analysis and Detection of Differences in Spoken User Behaviors between Autonomous and Wizard-of-Oz Systems
Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala +2
This study examined users' behavioral differences in a large corpus of Japanese human-robot interactions, comparing interactions between a tele-operated robot and an autonomous dia…
Evaluation of a semi-autonomous attentive listening system with takeover prompting
Haruki Kawai, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue +2
The handling of communication breakdowns and loss of engagement is an important aspect of spoken dialogue systems, particularly for chatting systems such as attentive listening, wh…
Acknowledgment of Emotional States: Generating Validating Responses for Empathetic Dialogue
Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala +3
In the realm of human-AI dialogue, the facilitation of empathetic responses is important. Validation is one of the key communication techniques in psychology, which entails recogni…
An Analysis of User Behaviors for Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi +2
Establishing evaluation schemes for spoken dialogue systems is important, but it can also be challenging. While subjective evaluations are commonly used in user experiments, object…