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A Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank Approach to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails +2
We introduce a novel re-ranking model that aims to augment the functionality of standard search engines to support classroom search activities for children (ages 6 to 11). This mod…
On the Computational Modeling of Meaning: Embodied Cognition Intertwined with Emotion
Casey Kennington
This document chronicles this author's attempt to explore how words come to mean what they do, with a particular focus on child language acquisition and what that means for models…
Vision Language Transformers: A Survey
Clayton Fields, Casey Kennington
Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of re…
Who's in Charge? Roles and Responsibilities of Decision-Making Components in Conversational Robots
Pierre Lison, Casey Kennington
Software architectures for conversational robots typically consist of multiple modules, each designed for a particular processing task or functionality. Some of these modules are d…
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition in an Incremental Setting
Ryan Whetten, Mir Tahsin Imtiaz, Casey Kennington
The increasing reliability of automatic speech recognition has proliferated its everyday use. However, for research purposes, it is often unclear which model one should choose for…
Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn
Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright +1
Using online information discovery as a case study, in this position paper we discuss the need to design, develop, and deploy (conversational) agents that can -- non-intrusively --…