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2008

  • Benyon, D. and Mival, O. (2008) Landscaping Personification Technologies: from Interactions to Relationships. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Benyon_CHI08.pdf
  • Bradley, J., Mival, O. and Benyon, D. (2008) A Novel Architecture for Designing by Wizard of Oz. In: Proceeding of CREATE08.
  • Catizone, R., Dingli, A., Pinto, H. and Wilks, Y. (2008) Information Extraction tools and methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion. In: Proc. Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Catizone_LREC08.pdf
  • Čermaková, K. (2008) Non-projectivity in English and Czech. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Cinkova, S. (2008) Semantic annotation of a dialog corpus. Presentation at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 08), March 2008.
  • Gruber, M. and Legát, M. (2008) Single Speaker Acoustic Analysis of Czech Speech for Purposes of Emotional Speech Synthesis. In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behaviour Conference (AISB 08).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Gruber_AISB08.pdf
  • Guthrie, D., Guthrie, L. and Wilks, Y. (2008) An Unsupervised Approach for the Detection of Outliers in Corpora. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
  • Hernández, A., López, B., Pardo, D., Santos, R., Hernández, L., Relaño Gil, J. and Rodríguez, M.C. (2008) Modular definition of multimodal ECA communication acts to improve dialogue robustness and depth of intention. In: The First Functional Markup Language Workshop Workshop at AAMAS 2008 (FML 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Hernandez_FML08.pdf
  • López, B., Hernández, Á., Pardo, D., Santos, R. and del Carmen Rodríguez, M. (2008) ECA gesture strategies for robust SLDS. In: Proceedings of the Artifical Inteligence and Simulation Behaviour Convention (AISB 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Lopez_AISB08.pdf
  • Lopez Mencia, B., Pardo de Vera, D.D., Hernandez Trapote, A., Rodriguez Gancedo, M.C., Relaño, J. and Hernandez Gomez, L. (2008) ECA Gestures for Robust Human-Computer Interaction. International Journal of Semantic Computing (forthcoming).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Mencia_IJSC08.pdf
  • Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N. and Benyon, D. (2008) PhotoPal: Companionship, Sharing and the Digital Echo. In: Proceedings of the Collocated Social Proctices Surrounding Photos Workshop at CHI 2008.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Mival_CHI08.pdf
  • Mladová, L. (2008) Diskurzní vztahy v češtině a jejich zachycení v anotovaném korpusu. [Discourse Relations in Czech and their Representation in an Annotated Corpus of Texts]. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Prague, Czech Republic.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Mladova_Discourse08.pdf
  • Mladová, L., Zikánová, Š. and Hajičová, E. (2008) From Sentence to Discourse: Building an Annotation Scheme for Discourse Based on Prague Dependency Treebank. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Mladova_LREC08.pdf
  • Pinto, H. (2008) Dialogue Managers. In: AI Game Programming Wisdom 4. Charles River Media.
  • Pinto, H. and Catizone, R. (2008) Speech-Based Dialogue Systems. In: AI Game Programming Wisdom 4. Charles River Media.
  • Pinto, H., Wilks, Y., Catizone, R. and Dingli, A. (2008) The Senior Companion Multiagent Dialogue System. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08).
  • Romportl, J. (2008) Statistical Evaluation of Prosodic Phrases in the Czech Language. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Romportl_SP08.pdf
  • Webb, N., Liu, T., Hepple, M. and Wilks, Y. (2008) Cross Domain Dialogue Act Tagging. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
  • Wilks, Y., Benyon, D., Brewster, C., Ircing, P. and Mival, O. (2008) Dialogue, Speech and Images: The Companions Project Data Set. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Wilks_LREC08.pdf
  • Wilks, Y., Catizone, R. and Mival, O. (2008) The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data. In Proc. Workshop on Memories for Life, British Computer Society (London, 18 March 2008).
    URL: http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Wilks_Memories_for_Life.pdf
  • Zovato, E., Tini-Brunozzi, F. and Danieli, M. (2008) Interplay between pragmatic and acoustic level to embody expressive cues in a Text to Speech system. In: Proceedings of the Artifical Inteligence and Simulation Behaviour Convention (AISB 2008).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Zovato_AISB08.pdf

2007

  • David Benyon and Oli Mival (2007) Introducing the Companions Project: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Interfaces to the Internet. In: Corina Sas and Tom Ormerod (eds) Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 07), 2007.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Benyon_HCI07.pdf
  • Johan Boye (2007) Dialogue management for automatic troubleshooting and other problem-solving applications. In: Tim Paek and Harry Bunt (eds) 8th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September, 2007.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Boye_SIGDIAL07.pdf
  • Martin Gruber, Daniel Tihelka and Jindrich Matousek (2007) Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival system. In: Wolfgang Hess (ed.) Proceedings of 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, August, 2007.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Gruber_SSW07.pdf
  • Zdenek Hanzlicek and Jindrich Matousek (2007) F0 Transformation within the Voice Conversion Framework. In: Dirk Van Compernolle and Lou Boves (eds) Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, August, 2007.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Hanzlicek_INTER07.pdf
  • Zdenek Hanzlicek and Jindrich Matousek (2007) Voice Conversion based on Probabilistic Parameter Transformation and Extended Inter-Speaker Residual Prediction. In: Frederick Jelinek and Hynek Hermansky (eds) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4629 (Springer: Berlin).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Hanzlicek_TSD07.pdf
  • Milan Legat, Daniel Tihelka and Jindrich Matouse (2007) Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys? In: Frederick Jelinek and Hynek Hermansky (eds) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4629 (Springer: Berlin).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Legat_TSD07.pdf
  • Jindrich Matousek and Jan Romportl (2007) Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis. In: Frederick Jelinek and Hynek Hermansky (eds) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4629 (Springer: Berlin).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Matousek_TSD07.pdf
  • Oli Mival and David Benyon (2007) From conceptual to concrete: Using video in scenario development. In: David Golightly, Tony Rose, William Wong and Ann Light (eds) Proceeding of Create 2007, 2007.
  • Roger Moore (2007) PRESENCE: A Human-Inspired Architecture for Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction. Transactions on Computers 56:1176-1188.
  • Jan Romportl and Jiri Kala (2007) Prosody Modelling in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis. In: Wolfgang Hess (ed.) Proceedings of 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, August, 2007.
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Romportl_SSW07.pdf
  • Néna Roa Seiler, David Benyon and Oli Mival (2007) Emotional Companions.
  • Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matousek and Jiri Kala (2007) Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis. In: Frederick Jelinek and Hynek Hermansky (eds) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4629 (Springer: Berlin).
    URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/companions/publications/Tihelka_TSD07.pdf
  • Yorick Wilks (2007) Is There Progress on Talking Sensibly to Machines? Science 318:927-928.
    URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/318/5852/927?ijkey=iJTmt8ruWHyjU&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

2006

2005

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