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2008

Benyon, D., Hansen, P. and Webb, N. (2008) Evaluating Human-Computer Conversation in Companions [PDF, 170kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Benyon, D. and Mival, O. (2008) Landscaping Personification Technologies: from Interactions to Relationships [PDF, 170kb]. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).
Benyon, D. and Mival, O. (2008) Scenarios for Companions [PDF, 1.3MB]. Austrian Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Vienna, September 2008.
Bradley, J., Mival, O. and Benyon, D. (2008) A Novel Architecture for Designing by Wizard of Oz. In: Proceeding of CREATE08.
Cavazza, M., Smith, C., Charlton, D., Zhang, L., Turunen, M. and Hakulinen, J. (2008) A 'Companion' ECA with Planning and Activity Modelling (Short Paper) [PDF, 170kb]. In: Padgham, Parkes, Mueller and Parsons (eds) Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 12-16 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 1281-1284.
Catizone, R., Worgan, S., Wilks, Y., Dingli, A. and Cheng, W. (2008) A Multimodal Conversational Companion for Reminiscing about Images [PDF, 130kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Catizone, R., Dingli, A., Pinto, H. and Wilks, Y. (2008) Information Extraction tools and methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion [PDF, 1.5Mb]. In: Proc. Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
Čermaková, K. (2008) Non-projectivity in English and Czech. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Prague, Czech Republic.
Cinková, S. (2008) Semantic annotation of a dialog corpus. Presentation at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 08), March 2008.
Cinková, S. and Mikulová, M. (2008) Speech reconstruction for the syntactic and semantic analysis of the NAP/AAA corpus [PDF, 1.0MB]. Technical report TR-2008-37 (ÚFAL, Charles Universuity: Prague).
Cinková, S., Hajič, J. and Ptáček, J. (2008) An Annotation Scheme for Speech Reconstruction on a Dialog Corpus [PDF, 330kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Cinková, S., Hajičová, E., Panevová, J. and Sgall, P. (2008) Two languages - one annotation scenario? Experience from the Prague Dependency Treebank [PDF, 200kb]. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 89:5-22.
Field, D., Worgan, S., Webb, N., Hepple, M. and Wilks, Y. (2008) Automatic Induction of Dialogue Structure from the Companions Dialogue Corpus [PDF, 50kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Gruber, M. and Legát, M. (2008) Single Speaker Acoustic Analysis of Czech Speech for Purposes of Emotional Speech Synthesis [PD, 155kb]. In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behaviour Conference (AISB 08).
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.
Hajič, J., Cinková, S., Mikulová, M., Pajas, P., Ptáček, J., Toman, J. and Urešová, Z. (2008) PDTSL: An Annotated Resource for Speech Reconstruction [PDF, 340kb]. In: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology.
Hakulinen, J. and Turunen, M. (2008) Interoperability and Knowledge Representation in Distributed Health and Fitness Companion Dialogue System [PDF, 390kb]. Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Application, 2008.
Hakulinen, J., Turunen, M., Smith, C., Cavazza, M. and Charlton, D. (2008) A Model for Flexible Interoperability between Dialogue Management and Domain Reasoning for Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems [PDF, 130kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
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 [PDF, 490kb]. In: The First Functional Markup Language Workshop Workshop at AAMAS 2008 (FML 2008).
Legát, M., Grüber, M. and Ircing, P. (2008) Wizard of Oz Data Collection for the Czech Senior Companion Dialogue System [PDF, 1.0Mb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Liakata, M. and Pulman, S.G. (2008) Fine Grained Semantic Classification for Domain Adaptation [PDF, 200kb]. In: J.Bos and R.Delmonte (eds) Semantics in Text Processing: STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings (London: College Publications). ISBN 978-1-904987-93-2, pp. 139-154.
López, B., Hernández, Á., Pardo, D., Santos, R. and del Carmen Rodríguez, M. (2008) ECA gesture strategies for robust SLDS [PDF, 360kb]. In: Proceedings of the Artifical Inteligence and Simulation Behaviour Convention (AISB 2008).
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 [pdf, 1.3Mb]. International Journal of Semantic Computing (forthcoming).
Luneski, A., Moore, R.K. and Bamidis, P.D. (2008) Affective computing and collaborative networks: towards emotion-aware interaction. In: L.M. Camarinha-Matos and W. Picard (Eds) Pervasive Collaborative Networks, Vol. 283 (Boston: Springer), pp. 315-322.
Luneski, A., Moore, R.K. and Bamidis, P. (2008) Affective interaction in collaborative networks. The 9th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises. Poznan, Poland.
Mikulová, M. (2008) Rekonstrukce standardizovaného textu z mluvené řeči v Pražském závislostním korpusu mluvené češtiny. Manuál pro anotátory [PDF, 520kb]. Technical Report TR-2008-38 (ÚFAL, Charles University: Prague).
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N. and Benyon, D. (2008) PhotoPal: Companionship, Sharing and the Digital Echo [PDF, 1.2Mb]. In: Proceedings of the Collocated Social Proctices Surrounding Photos Workshop at CHI 2008.
Mladová, L. (2008) Diskurzní vztahy v češtině a jejich zachycení v anotovaném korpusu [PDF, 1.0Mb]. [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.
Mladová, L., Zikánová, Š. and Hajičová, E. (2008) From Sentence to Discourse: Building an Annotation Scheme for Discourse Based on Prague Dependency Treebank [PDF, 200kb]. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco.
Ptáček, J. (2008) Two Tectogrammatical Realizers Side by Side: Case of English and Czech [PDF, 190kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
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 [PDF, 75kb]. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2008).
Smith, C., Cavazza, M., Charlton, D., Zhang, L., Turunen, M. and Hakulinen, J. (2008) Integrating Planning and Dialogue in a Lifestyle Agent [PDF, 300kb]. In: Proceedings of IVA, 2008.
Smith, C., Charlton, D., Zhang, L., Cavazza, M., Hakulinen, J. and Turunen, M. (2008) An Embodied Conversational Agent as a Lifestyle Advisor (Demo Paper) [PDF, 80kb]. In: Padgham, Parkes, Mueller and Parsons (eds) Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 12-16 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 1713-1714.
Ståhl, O., Gambäck, B., Hansen, P., Turunen, M. and Hakulinen, J. (2008) A Mobile Fitness Companion [PDF, 170kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Subramanya, A. and Bilmes, J. (2008) Soft Supervised learning for Text Classification [PDF, 280kb]. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Turunen, M., Hakulinen, J., Ståhl, O., Gambäck, B., Hansen, P., Rodríguez Gancedo, M.C., de la Cámara, R.S., Smith, C., Charlton, D. and Cavazza, M. (2008) Multimodal Agent Interfaces and System Architectures for Health and Fitness Companions [PDF, 550kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Turunen, M., Hakulinen, J., Smith, C., Charlton, D., Li, Z. and Cavazza, M. (2008) Physically Embodied Conversational Agents as Health and Fitness Companions [PDF, 370kb]. In: Proceedings of Interspeech, 2008.
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. (2008) On Whose Shoulders? [PDF, 110kb] [ACL Lifetime Achievement Award] Computational Linguistics.
Wilks, Y., Benyon, D., Brewster, C., Ircing, P. and Mival, O. (2008) Dialogue, Speech and Images: The Companions Project Data Set [PDF, 365kb]. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC08), Marrakech, Morocco.
Wilks, Y., Catizone, R. and Mival, O. (2008) The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data [PDF, 100kb]. In Proc. Workshop on Memories for Life, British Computer Society (London, 18 March 2008).
Worgan, S. and Moore, R. (2008) Enabling Reinforcement Learning for Open Dialogue Systems through Speech Stress Detection [PDF, 300kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
Zovato, E. and Romportl, J. (2008) Speech synthesis and emotions: a compromise between flexibility and believability [PDF, 100kb]. Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.
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 [PDF, 70kb]. In: Proceedings of the Artifical Inteligence and Simulation Behaviour Convention (AISB 2008).

2007

Benyon, D. and Mival, O. (2007) Introducing the Companions Project: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Interfaces to the Internet [PDF, 120kb]. In: Corina Sas and Tom Ormerod (eds) Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 07), 2007.
Boye, J. (2007) Dialogue management for automatic troubleshooting and other problem-solving applications [PDF, 110kb]. In: Tim Paek and Harry Bunt (eds) 8th SIGDial workshop on discourse and dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September, 2007.
Gruber, M., Tihelka, D. and Matousek, J. (2007) Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival system [PDF, 1.5Mb]. In: Wolfgang Hess (ed.) Proceedings of 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, August, 2007.
Hanzlicek, Z. and Matousek, J. (2007) F0 Transformation within the Voice Conversion Framework [PDF, 130kb]. In: Dirk Van Compernolle and Lou Boves (eds) Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, August, 2007.
Hanzlicek, Z. and Matousek, J. (2007) Voice Conversion based on Probabilistic Parameter Transformation and Extended Inter-Speaker Residual Prediction [PDF, 150kb]. 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).
Legat, M., Tihelka, D. and Matouse, J. (2007) Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys? [PDF, 1.2Mb] 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).
Matousek, J. and Romportl, J. (2007) Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF, 270kb]. 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).
Mival, O. and Benyon, D. (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.
Moore, R. (2007) PRESENCE: A Human-Inspired Architecture for Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction. Transactions on Computers 56:1176-1188.
Romportl, J. and Kala, J. (2007) Prosody Modelling in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF, 160kb]. In: Wolfgang Hess (ed.) Proceedings of 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, August, 2007.
Néna Roa Seiler, David Benyon and Oli Mival (2007) Emotional Companions.
Tihelka, D., Matousek, J. and Kala, J. (2007) Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis [PDF, 115kb]. 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).
Wilks, W. (2007) Is There Progress on Talking Sensibly to Machines? Science 318:927-928.

2006

Wilks, W. (2006) Artificial Companions as a new kind of interface to the future Internet [PDF, 100kb]. Oxford Internet Institute Research Report 13, 2006.

2005

Wilks, Y. (2005) Artificial companions [PDF, 60kb]. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, June, Volume 30, Pages 145-152(8), 2005.

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