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The ADELE Corpus of Dyadic Social Text Conversations:Dialog Act Annotation with ISO 24617-2
Campbell, Nick; Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Clark Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Levacher, Killian; Calvo, Arturo; Cerrato, Loredana (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018)Social or interactional dialog is less well described than task-based or instrumental dialog, although there is increasing interest in the genre, particularly in light of new spoken and text dialog applications which aim ... -
ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging
Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and ... -
ADELE: Evaluating and Benchmarking an Artificial Conversational Care Agent
Spillane, Brendan; Saam, Christian; Gilmartin, Emer; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Wade, Vincent (http://casforhealth.org, 2020-04-26)This paper provides an overview of a planned experiment to evaluate the latest iteration of ADELE, an artificial conversational agent to aid in the care of the elderly. It is being evaluated against an earlier iteration ... -
Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Levacher, Killian; Cerrato, Loredana; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Clark, Leigh; Calvo, Arturo (2017)Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ... -
A Classification of Biases Relating to the Production, Dissemination and Consumption of News
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent (http://critical-media.org/, 2020-04-25)There are many difficulties in studying bias at the production, dissemination, or consumption stages of the news pipeline. These include the difficulty of identifying high quality empirical research, the lack of agreed ... -
Dialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk
Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Campbell, Nick; GIlmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Su, Ketong; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2017)Conversation proceeds through dialogue moves or acts, and dialog act annotation can aid the design of artificial dialog. While many dialogs are task-based or instrumental, with clear goals, as in the case of a service ... -
Finally a Case for Collaborative VR?: The Need to Design for Remote Multi-Party Conversations
Wade, Vincent (2020)Amid current social distancing measures requiring people to work from home, there has been renewed interest on how to effectively converse and collaborate remotely utilizing currently available technologies. On the ... -
Identifying Topic Shift and Topic Shading in Switchboard
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Clark, Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)This paper highlights some of the ongoing work on the ADELE project, namely the identification and annotation of topic shift and topic shading in the Switchboard-1 Release-2 corpus. The purpose of this is to train an ... -
The Impact of Increasing and Decreasing the Professionalism of News Webpage Aesthetics on the Perception of Bias in News Articles
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (Springer, 2020-07-19)This paper reports further results from a large study examining the impact of the visual aesthetics of news websites on the perception of bias in news articles. It focuses on the characteristic of professionalism, which ... -
Increasing and Decreasing Perceived Bias by Distorting the Quality of News Website Design
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 2018)News website design has previously been shown to impact perceived credibility, and one of its core dimensions and measures, bias. This paper demonstrates that by adapting the quality of the visual presentation of webpages ... -
Increasing and Decreasing Perceived Bias by Distorting the Quality of News Website Design
Lawless, Seamus; SPILLANE, BRENDAN; Wade, Vincent (2018) -
Introducing ADELE: A personalized intelligent companion
Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan (2017)This paper introduces ADELE, a Personalized Intelligent Companion designed to engage with users through spoken dialog to help them explore topics of interest. The system will maintain a user model of information consumption ... -
Issues Relating to Trust in Care Agents for the Elderly
Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Wade, Vincent (ACM, 2019-08-22)There is increasing academic interest in and commercial development of care agents to assist with the care of the elderly in the home. This paper defines some of the under-explored questions and issues relating to trust. ... -
Managing adaptive pervasive computing using knowledge-based service integration and rule-based behavior
Wade, Vincent; Conlan, Owen; O'Sullivan, Declan; Lewis, David (2004)Managing adaptive pervasive computing using knowledge-based service integration and rule-based behavior -
Managing User-centric Adaptive Services for Pervasive Computing
Wade, Vincent; Lewis, David; BRADY, AOIFE (IEEE Press, 2004)Pervasive computing environments need to exhibit highly adaptive behavior to meet the changing task requirements and operational context of visiting mobile users. However this must be balanced with the need of resource ... -
Measuring Bias in News Websites, Towards a Model for Personalization
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (2017)This poster briefly elucidates on a crowdsourced exploratory study demonstrating the impact of common features of news websites' design on perceived bias. Type of news website, user characteristics, and the overall design, ... -
Perception of Bias: The Impact of User Characteristics, Website Design and Technical Features
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (ACM, 2017)Bias, whether real or perceived by the user, is inherent in news media. In this paper, we demonstrate that user characteristics, the design and common technical features of news websites impact users' perception of bias. ... -
Pilot Data Collection Survey and Analytical Techniques for Persuasion Engineering Systems
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Braca, Annye; Dondio, Pierpaolo (2019)Persuasive communication is learned from childhood and can further be refined through study and experience. The ability to persuade through effective argumentation is regarded as a sign of intelligence,enticing ... -
Service-oriented policy management for web-application frameworks
Lewis, David; Wade, Vincent (2009)Policy-based management technologies represent an important tool for managing the user services that Web-application frameworks provide. However, current policy-management systems are a poor fit for the domain because they ... -
Silence and overlap in chat and chunk phases of multiparty casual conversation
Vogel, Carl; Wade, Vincent (2018)