Search Results - "Theune, Mariët"

Measuring and implementing lexical alignment: A systematic literature review by Srivastava, Sumit, Wentzel, Suzanna D., Catala, Alejandro, Theune, Mariët

“…Lexical Alignment is a phenomenon often found in human–human conversations, where the interlocutors converge during a conversation to use the same terms and…”
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An embodied conversational agent coach to support societal participation learning by low-literate users by Schouten, Dylan G. M., Deneka, Agnes A., Theune, Mariët, Neerincx, Mark A., Cremers, Anita H. M.

“…People of low literacy could benefit from automated support when learning about societal participation. We design an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA)…”
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Is It That Difficult to Find a Good Preference Order for the Incremental Algorithm? by Krahmer, Emiel, Koolen, Ruud, Theune, Mariët

“…In a recent article published in this journal (van Deemter, Gatt, van der Sluis, & Power, 2012), the authors criticize the Incremental Algorithm (a well‐known…”
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Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications by Theune, M., Meijs, K., Heylen, D., Ordelman, R.

“…Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has…”
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Automatic Enrichment and Classification of Folktales in the Dutch Folktale Database by Meder, Theo, Karsdorp, Folgert, Nguyen, Dong, Theune, Mariët, Trieschnigg, Dolf, Muiser, Iwe Everhardus Christiaan

“…This paper describes the development of the Dutch Folktale Database as a digital archive of intangible heritage and a sophisticated research instrument…”
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Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections: The Case of the Dutch Folktale Database by Iwe Everhardus Christiaan Muiser, Theune, Mariët, Ruud de Jong, Smink, Nigel, Trieschnigg, Dolf, Hiemstra, Djoerd, Meder, Theo

“…This paper demonstrates the use of a user-centred design approach for the development of generous interfaces/rich prospect browsers for an online cultural…”
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Natural interaction with a virtual guide in a virtual environment: A multimodal dialogue system by Hofs, Dennis, Theune, Mariët, op den Akker, Rieks

“…This paper describes the Virtual Guide, a multimodal dialogue system represented by an embodied conversational agent that can help users to find their way in a…”
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Playful vs. serious instruction giving in a 3D game environment by Boer Rookhuiszen, Roan, Theune, Mariët

“…In this paper we introduce two NLG systems that we developed for the GIVE challenge, which was aimed at the evaluation of natural language generation (NLG)…”
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Contrast in concept-to-speech generation by Theune, Mariët

“…In concept-to-speech systems, spoken output is generated on the basis of a text that has been produced by the system itself. In such systems, linguistic…”
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The dual of denial: Two uses of disconfirmations in dialogue and their prosodic correlates by Krahmer, Emiel, Swerts, Marc, Theune, Mariët, Weegels, Mieke

“…In human–human communication, dialogue participants are continuously sending and receiving signals on the status of the information being exchanged. These…”
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Multimodal presentation of local danger warnings for drivers: A situation-dependent assessment of usability by Yujia Cao, Theune, M, Muller, C

“…This study addresses how advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) should communicate with drivers, focusing on the local danger warning function. To achieve…”
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Leveraging Annotator Disagreement for Text Classification by Xu, Jin, Theune, Mariët, Braun, Daniel

“…It is common practice in text classification to only use one majority label for model training even if a dataset has been annotated by multiple annotators…”
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Contrast in concept-to-speech generation: Spoken language generation by THEUNE, Mariët

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Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications : Special Section on Expressive Speech Synthesis by THEUNE, Mariët, MEIJS, Koen, HEYLEN, Dirk, ORDELMAN, Roeland

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Remixing Headlines for Context-Appropriate Flavor Text by van Stegeren, Judith, Theune, Mariet

“…We describe a prototype of Churnalist, a headline generator for creating contextually-appropriate fictional headlines that can be used as flavor text in games…”
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Social agents: The first generations by Heylen, D., Theune, M., op den Akker, R., Nijholt, A.

“…Embodied Conversational Agents can be viewed as spoken dialogue systems with a graphical representation of a human body. But the embodiment is not the only…”
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On the Role of Visuals in Multimodal Answers to Medical Questions by van Hooijdonk, C., de Vos, J., Krahmer, E., Maes, A., Theune, M., Bosma, W.

“…This paper describes two experiments carried out in order to investigate the role of visuals in multimodal answer presentations for a medical question…”
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