Schedule
- Day 1:
- What are ECAs?
Human-human Face-to-face Conversation
Overview of Natural Language Generation. - Day 2:
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What's the Output? - Specifying multimodal utterances.
A bit about Realization.
Text-to-Speech-Plus-Non-verbal-Behavior - Day 3:
- Generating referring expressions accompanied by gestures.
- Day 4:
- Generating non-verbal behaviors for discourse and dialogue.
- Day 5:
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Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents
I want to build my own ECA. How do I start?
Reading Material
I will make an annotated bibliography available here.
Slides
The slides in pdf format.