Data-driven generation of emphatic facial displays

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 353-360

  Foster, Mary Ellen ^a   Oberlander, Jon ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS VALIDATION; DATA DRIVEN GENERATION; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; MODEL-MAKING; TWO WAYS; USER RATING; USER STUDY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84893370868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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