Machine Learning

NADIA - Neural network driven virtual human conversation agents

Advances in artificial intelligence and in particular machine learning and neural networks have given rise to a new generation of virtual assistants and chatbots. Within this work, we present NADiA - Neurally Animated Dialog Agent - that leverages …

NADiA - Towards neural network driven virtual human conversation agents

Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning - in particular neural networks - have given rise to a new generation of virtual assistants and chatbots. Within this work, we describe the motivation and architecture of NADiA - Neurally …

Affect-LM: A neural language model for customizable affective text generation

Human verbal communication includes affective messages which are conveyed through use of emotionally colored words. There has been a lot of research in this direction but the problem of integrating state-of-the-art neural language models with …

Assessing Public Speaking Ability from Thin Slices of Behavior

An important aspect of public speaking is delivery, which consists of the appropriate use of non-verbal cues to strengthen the message. Recent works have successfully predicted ratings of public speaking delivery aspects using the entire …

Multimodal public speaking performance assessment

The ability to speak proficiently in public is essential for many professions and in everyday life. Public speaking skills are difficult to master and require extensive training. Recent developments in technology enable new approaches for public …