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5 papers

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024

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…