Browsing by Author "Campbell, Nick"
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An Active Data Representation of Videos for Automatic Scoring of Oral Presentation Delivery Skills and Feedback Generation
Koutsombogera, Maria; Vogel, Carl; Campbell, Nick; Conlan, Owen (2020)Public speaking is an important skill, the acquisition of which requires dedicated and time consuming training. In recent years, researchers have started to investigate automatic methods to support public speaking skills ... -
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 ... -
Analysing patterns of right brain-hemisphere activity prior to speech articulation for identification of system-directed speech
Campbell, Nick (2019)Autonomous speech-enabled applications such as speech-to-speech machine translation, conversational agents, and spoken dialogue systems need to be able to distinguish system-directed user input from “off-talk” to function ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
Vogel, Carl; Campbell, Nick (2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
Disfluency in Multiparty Social Talk
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Exploring the Role of Laughter in Multiparty Conversation
Vogel, Carl; Campbell, Nick (ILLC, 2013)We report ongoing work on laughter in task based and social multiparty human conversation, outlining work to date on laughter around topic change, annotation procedures developed and current ... -
Laughter and Topic Transition in Multiparty Conversation
Vogel, Carl; Campbell, Nick (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)This study explores laughter distribution around topic changes in multiparty conversations. The distribution of shared and solo laughter around topic changes was examined in corpora containing two types of spoken interaction; ... -
Stitching together the conversation - considerations in the design of extended social talk
Vogel, Carl; Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick (2018)Spoken interaction mediates much human social and practical activity. Talk is not monolithic in form but rather weaves in and out of different genres. Practical tasks are peppered with lubricating social talk, while casual ...