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Questionnaire #2: Emotion Recognition

marzo 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: Emotion Recognition

The new trends in human-computer interfaces, which have evolved from conventional mouse and keyboard to automatic speech recognition systems and special interfaces designed for disabled people, do not take complete advantage of these valuable communicative abilities, resulting often in a less than natural interaction.
Facial expressions are privileged relative to other nonverbal “channels” of communication, such […]

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Questionnaire #2: The intelligent Library Assistant

marzo 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: The intelligent Library Assistant

In modern society, robots are been designed to play an increasing role in the lives of ordinary people. Among the emerging areas in robotics is the field of service robots. One example of it is an intelligent library assistant robot.
Universities and some public libraries use a kind of intelligent Library Assistant to search for the […]

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Questionnaire #2: List of topics

marzo 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: List of topics

Here there are the topics I have chosen.

The intelligent Library Assistant
Answer Extraction
Morphological Analysis
Lexical-Functional Grammar
Sustained Emotionally coloured Machine-human Interaction using Nonverbal Expression
Citizens Advanced Relationship Management
Intelligent dialogue control and expressive speech synthesis for computer games
Emotion Recognition
Text-to-speech Synthesis
Automatic Language Identification

Resources:

Projects. In Language technology world. Retrieved 23th March 2009, 12:42 from: http://www.lt-world.org/
Completed Projects. In German research center of Artificial […]

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Questionnaire #1: Europe’s Human Language Technology Research Centers

marzo 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #1: Europe’s Human Language Technology Research Centers

1. University of Trento
As their own web page defin the course they impart:

Human language technology (HLT) is becoming increasingly essential to analyze, understand and exploit the huge amounts of information currently available in the form of web, textual or spoken documents. HLT gives people the possibility of using speech and/or natural language to interact to […]

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Questionnaire #1: Yorik Wilks. Short biography.

marzo 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #1: Yorik Wilks. Short biography.

Yorick Wilks was borned in 1939, he was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and was an early pioneer in meaning-based approaches to the understanding of natural language content by computers. Since the early 70s he has worked in several research projects all over in convination with being proffesor the world: California, Switzerland, Edinburg, Essex, Sheffield, […]

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Questionnaire #1: Human Language Technologies, definitions.

marzo 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #1: Human Language Technologies, definitions.

According to a survey published by Cambridge University Press and Giardini:

Human Language Technologies are a very important way of communication as languages are, above all, the first way of communication all over the world. In addition with the help that globalization has provided Language technology offers people the opportunity to improve their communication. The ability […]

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Microsoft Windows. A brief history.

enero 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Microsoft Windows. A brief history.

Nowadays you can see computers everywhere and seems that the people have been using them for ages. However, the early beginning of the computers is setted on 1982 more or less. This post is related to Windows, the most used computer system: Windows, whose creator, Bill Gates, developed in his own garage and later became […]

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