Corpus-based generation of head and eyebrow motion for an embodied conversational agent

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 305-323

  Foster, Mary Ellen ^a   Oberlander, Jon ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data driven generation; Embodied conversational agents; Evaluation of generated output; Multimodal corpora

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349089489     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-007-9055-3     Document Type: Article

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