Converting text into agent animations: Assigning gestures to text

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 153-156

  Nakano, Yukiko I ^a   Okamoto, Masashi ^b   Kawahara, Daisuke ^b   Li, Qing ^b   Nishida, Toyoaki ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED AGENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LEXICAL INFORMATION; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84876017379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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