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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI) der OSGK
Freyung 6/6/7, A-1010 Wien
Tel: +43-1-5336112-17, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at
Dipl. Vladislav Maraev, M.A.
Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP)
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
WHAT DOES LAUGHTER MEAN FOR A DIALOGUE SYSTEM?
Laughter is a non-verbal social signal which is omnipresent in our
everyday interactions. Nevertheless, current spoken dialogue systems are
not equipped to understand and express the contextual variety of
meanings associated with it. In this talk I will discuss our recent
studies aimed at achieving this goal. In the first part of my talk, I
focus on the role of laughter in meaning construction and attribution of
communicative intents, showing how different dialogue acts are
characterised by specific laughter patterns. In the second part, I will
look at the particular instances of laughs in task-oriented dialogue and
propose a formal account for dealing with them in a dialogue management
component of spoken dialogue systems.
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Time: Wednesday, 28th of July 2021, 6:30 p.m. sharp
Location: on ZOOM
URL:
Meeting ID: 882 0220 6376
Passcode: 942782
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl