13 November: DCLRS -- Maria Koutsombogera, Friday, November 20, 16:00 (TCD, Lloyd
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Friday next week (November 20), at 4pm, in LB08, Lloyd Building (TCD),
Dr. Maria Koutsombogera (ILSP, Athens) speaks in the Dublin
Computational Linguistics Research Seminar on
Exploring multimodal communication in multi-party settings
The study of multimodal human-human interactions sheds light on the
modalities, actions and strategies participants employ to convey their
message and achieve their communicative goals. The acquisition of rich
audiovisual recordings is a prerequisite to the observation, analysis and
modelling of the interaction behavior. Recently, the availability of robust
capture devices (such as eye trackers, microphones, biosignal sensors) and
modelling techniques is being exploited to build more engaging
human-machine interfaces. Moreover, multi-party interactions pose a further
challenge compared to two-party settings: as the number of speakers in an
interaction grows, the communication dynamics becomes more complex in terms
of turn management, feedback responses and behavioural variables such as
engagement, attention and dominance.
In this talk, we will focus on two collaborative scenarios exploring the
interaction between three participants, i.e. a learning and a game-solving
task, and we will discuss:
(a) the experimental design and set up for the collection of multiparty and
multimodal corpora, i.e. scenario and task design, equipment and spatial
set-up enabling to capture the desired behavioural cues, (b) manual
annotation process of the multimodal interactional behavior of the speakers
(c) preferred multimodal signals and conversational strategies that
speakers employ to carry out successful multi-party conversations, and (d)
association of the participants’ verbal and non-verbal activity to the
outcome of their task.
*Bio:* Maria Koutsombogera is a Research Associate at the Institute for
language and Speech Processing in Athens, Greece. Her research interests
focus on the development and processing of textual and multimodal corpora
for Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction Modelling.
She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a MSc in Language
Technology from the University of Athens.
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The Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar series is a
cooperation among Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin,
University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology, a
collaboration with the TCD Centre for Computing and Language Studies,
alongside CNGL and ADAPT.
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