Search Results - "Oberlander, Jon"

Corpus-Based Generation of Head and Eyebrow Motion for an Embodied Conversational Agent by Foster, Mary Ellen, Oberlander, Jon

“…Humans are known to use a wide range of non-verbal behaviour while speaking. Generating naturalistic embodied speech for an artificial agent is therefore an…”
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Ghostwriter: Educational Drama and Presence in a Virtual Environment by Robertson, Judy, DESPA, Jon Oberlander

“…Improvisational dramatic role‐play activities are used in classrooms to encourage children to explore the feelings of the characters in a story. Role‐play…”
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Stochastic text generation by Oberlander, Jon, Brew, Chris

“…Natural language generation systems must achieve fluency goals, as well as fidelity goals. Fluency helps make systems more usable by, for instance, producing…”
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Geoparsing historical and contemporary literary text set in the City of Edinburgh by Alex, Beatrice, Grover, Claire, Tobin, Richard, Oberlander, Jon

“…While a reasonable amount of work has gone into automatically geoparsing text at the city or higher levels of granularity for different types of texts in…”
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Foundations of Representation: Where Might Graphical Symbol Systems Come From? by Garrod, Simon, Fay, Nicolas, Lee, John, Oberlander, Jon, MacLeod, Tracy

“…It has been suggested that iconic graphical signs evolve into symbolic graphical signs through repeated usage. This article reports a series of interactive…”
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User preferences can drive facial expressions: evaluating an embodied conversational agent in a recommender dialogue system by Foster, Mary Ellen, Oberlander, Jon

“…Tailoring the linguistic content of automatically generated descriptions to the preferences of a target user has been well demonstrated to be an effective way…”
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Language With Character: A Stratified Corpus Comparison of Individual Differences in E-Mail Communication by Oberlander, Jon, Gill, Alastair J.

“…To what extent does the wording and syntactic form of people's writing reflect their personalities? Using a bottom-up stratified corpus comparison, rather than…”
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Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature by Alex, Beatrice, Grover, Claire, Oberlander, Jon, Thomson, Tara, Anderson, Miranda, Loxley, James, Hinrichs, Uta, Zhou, Ke

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Rating e-mail personality at zero acquaintance by Gill, Alastair J., Oberlander, Jon, Austin, Elizabeth

“…Electronic media are pervasive in daily communication. But how well do personality ratings of short e-mail messages match the self-reports of the authors? Here…”
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Corpus-based generation of head and eyebrow motion for an embodied conversational agent: Multimodal Corpora for Modeling Human Multimodal Behavior by FOSTER, Mary Ellen, OBERLANDER, Jon

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Contrasting the Cognitive Effects of Graphical and Sentential Logic Teaching: Reasoning, Representation, and Individual Differences by Stenning, Keith

“…Compares the effects of teaching undergraduate logic courses using Hyperproof (a graphical computer software program) and a traditional syntactic teaching…”
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Speaking the users' languages by Isard, A., Oberlander, J., Matheson, C., Androutsopoulos, I.

“…The authors describe a system that generates descriptions of museum objects tailored to the user. The texts presented to adults, children, and experts differ…”
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Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects by Sanders, Ted, Schilperoord, Joost, Spooren, Wilbert

“…This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role…”
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Integrating natural language generation and hypertext to produce dynamic documents by Dale, Robert, Oberlander, Jon, Milosavljevic, Maria, Knott, Alistair

“…We discuss a task requiring the coherent presentation of heterogeneous information about objects recorded in electronic catalogues. We consider the advantages…”
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Dynamic catalogues on the WWW by Milosavljevic, Maria, Oberlander, Jon

“…Electronic catalogues are here to stay; however, static WWW documents will not aid the user in finding what she is looking for. We argue for the use of natural…”
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Conversation in the museum: experiments in dynamic hypermedia with the intelligent labelling explorer by Oberlander, Jon, O'Donnell, Mick, Mellish, Chris, Knott, Alistair

“…We outline experience with the Intelligent Labelling Explorer, a dynamic hypertext system developed at the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the…”
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Conversation in the museum : experiments in dynamic hypermedia with the intelligent labelling explorer: Adaptivity and user modelling in hypermedia systems by OBERLANDER, Jon, O'DONNELL, Mick, MELLISH, Chris, KNOTT, Alistair

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The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue by Foster, Mary Ellen, Bard, Ellen Gurman, Guhe, Markus, Hill, Robin L., Oberlander, Jon, Knoll, Alois

“…Generating referring expressions is a task that has received a great deal of attention in the natural-language generation community, with an increasing amount…”
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Interpreting pronouns and connectives: Interactions among focusing, thematic roles and coherence relations by Stevenson, Rosemary, Knott, Alistair, Oberlander, Jon, McDonald, Sharon

“…This paper investigates the relationship between focusing and coherence relations in pronoun comprehension. In their focusing model of pronoun comprehension,…”
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Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits - The M-PIRO Project by Androutsopoulos, Ion, Kokkinaki, Vassiliki, Dimitromanolaki, Aggeliki, Calder, Jo, Oberlander, Jon, Not, Elena

“…This paper provides an overall presentation of the M-PIRO project. M-PIRO is developing technology that will allow museums to generate automatically textual or…”
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