THE NECA PUBLICATIONS
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This directory holds deliverables and publications evolving throughout the NECA project.
Preversion of book chapter on a cross-cultural case study on embodied characters
Krenn B., Neumayr B., Gstrein E. and Grice M. Life-Like Agents for the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Case Study. In Payr S., Trappl R. (eds). Agent Culture: Designing Human-Agent Interaction in a Multicultural World. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ, to appear.
Full paper (393k - PDF)
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Paper on use of emotions in multi-character conversations
Patrick Gebhard, Martin Klesen, Thomas Rist: Coloring Multi-Character
Conversations through the Expression of Emotions. To appear in: Proc. of the
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS'04),
Kloster Irsee, June 14-16, 2004.
This is not funny
J. Trouvain & M. Schröder (to appear). How (Not) to Add Laughter to
Synthetic Speech to appear in: To appear in: Proc. of the
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS'04),
Kloster Irsee, June 14-16.
An empirical study on how politeness degrees "survives" summarizing
Trevisan Roman N., Piwek P., Carvalho A.: Be Polite or Be Summarized,
Technical Report ITRI-04-05, Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, UK, 2004.
Technical report (125k PDF)
An empirical evaluation of the NECA demonstrators eShowroom and Socialite
Gstrein E., Schmotzer Ch., Krenn B.: Report on Demonstrator Evaluation Results,
NECA Deliverable D9e, Austrian Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, AT, 2004.
Project deliverable (144k PDF)
Paper on accentuation and information structure
Baumann S., Grice M.:. Accenting Accessible Information. in Proc. of SpeechProsody, pp.21-24, Nara, Japan, 2004.
Full paper (85k - PDF)
Paper on gesture specification
Krenn B., Pirker H.: Defining the Gesticon: Language and Gesture Coordination
for Interacting Embodied Agents, in Proceedings of the AISB-2004 Symposium on
Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters, University of Leeds, UK, pp.107-115, 2004.
Full paper (82k - PDF)
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Study on the textual expression of emotion
Belz A. And Now with Feeling: Developments in Emotional Language Generation, Technical Report No. ITRI-03-21. Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, UK, 2003.
Technical report (180k PDF)
An empirical study on the effect of gestures
Bergenstrahle M.: Feedback Gesture Generation for Embodied
Conversational Agents, Technical Report ITRI-03-22, Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, UK, 2003.
Technical report (421k PDF)
Introducing the MARY-system
M. Schröder & J. Trouvain: The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis
System MARY: A Tool for Research, Development and Teaching.
International Journal of Speech Technology, 6, pp. 365-377, 2003.
Full paper (98k - PDF)
A Paper on Embodied Presentation Agents
Thomas Rist, Elisabeth Andre, Stephan Baldes, Patrick Gebhard, Martin
Klesen, Michael Kipp, Peter Rist, Markus Schmitt: A Review on the
Development of Embodied Presentation Agents and their Application Fields.
In: Life-like Characters. Tools, Affective Functions and Applications.,
Cognitive Technologies Series, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Paper on animated face-to-face conversation in an avatar-based web community
Krenn B., Neumayr B. Socialite in derSpittelberg: Incorporating animated conversation into a Web-based community-building tool To appear in: Proc. of the 4th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'03), Kloster Irsee, 2003.
Full paper (634k - PDF)
A Paper on using diphon-inventories with different voice qualities
M. Schröder & M. Grice: Expressing vocal effort in concatenative
synthesis. Proc. of the 15th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-2003), August 3-9,
Barcelona, Spain, pp. 2589-2592, 2003.
Full paper (132k - PDF)
Papers on Intonation
Baumann S., Hadelich K.: Accent Types and Givenness: An Experiment with Auditory and Visual Priming;
in Proc. of the 15th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-2003), August 3-9,
Barcelona, Spain, pp.1811-1814, 2003.
Full paper (143k - PDF)
Pirker H., Neubarth F.: Some Questions and Answers on the Prosodic Correlates
of Information Structure, in Proc. of the 15th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-2003), August 3-9,
Barcelona, Spain, pp.1807-1810, 2003.
Full paper (136k - PDF)
Paper on Multimodal Generation
Piwek P.: A Flexible Pragmatics-driven Language Generator for Animated Agents, in Proc. of EACL 2003, April 12-17, Budapest, Hungary.
Full paper (38k - PDF)
An empirical study on the effect of gestures
Piwek P.: The effect of gestures on the perception of a
dialogue between two embodied conversational agents: a pilot study,
Technical Report ITRI-03-09, Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, UK, 2003.
Technical report (359k PDF)
Bibliography
Piwek P.: An Annotated Bibliography of Affective Natural Language Generation. version 1.3. April 2003 (version 1.0 appeared in 2002 as ITRI Technical Report ITRI-02-02, University of Brighton)
Full paper (139k - PDF)
Paper on Intonation
Baumann S., Hadelich K.: On the Perception of Intonationally Marked Givenness after Auditory an d Visual Priming. Proc. of AAI workshop "Prosodic Interfaces", March 27-29 2003, pp.21-26, Nantes, France
Full paper (195k - PDF)
Paper on Scripted Dialogue
Piwek P., van Deemter K.: Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue. In: Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on
Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, March 24-26, Palo Alto, CA. .
Full paper (94k - PDF)
Paper on emotional speech
Schröder M.: Emotional speech synthesis for emotionally-rich virtual worlds, Proc. of Workshop on emotionally rich virtual worlds with emotion synthesis at the 8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D), 10. March 2003, St.Malo,France.
Full paper (87k - PDF)
Overviews on NECA
Krenn B.: The NECA Project: Net Environments for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents, Proc. of Workshop on emotionally rich virtual worlds with emotion synthesis at the 8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D), 10. March 2003, St.Malo,France.
Full paper (17k - PDF)
Krenn B.: The NECA Project: Net Environments for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents Project Note. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz Themenheft Embodied Conversational Agents, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Full paper (223k - PDF)
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Paper on facial animation
I. Albrecht, J. Haber, K. Kähler, M. Schröder & H.-P. Seidel:
"May I talk to you? :-)" -- Facial Animation from Text, Proc. Pacific
Graphics 2002.
Full paper (9MB - PDF)
Paper on NECA's Architecture
Krenn B., Grice M., Piwek P., Schröder M., Klesen M.,
Baumann S., Pirker H., van Deemter K., Gstrein E.: Generation
of Multi-modal Dialogue for Net Environment, In Proceedings of
KONVENS-02, 30 September - 2 October 2002, pp.91-98, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Full paper (160k - PDF)
Paper on the Generation of
Scripted Dialogues
Piwek P., van Deemter K.: Towards Automated Generation of
Scripted Dialogue:
Some Time-Honoured Strategies, In Proceedings of the 6th
Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 4-6
September 2002, Edinburgh.
Full paper (196k - PDF)
Assessment of Markup Languages for Avatars,
multimedia and multimodal system.
Neca Deliverable D9c by Hannes Pirker and Brigitte Krenn, ÖFAI.
May 2002.
Full paper (312k - PDF)
Paper on the Evaluation of an Existing Net-Environment
Krenn B., Gstrein E., Neumayr B., Grice M.:
What can we learn from users of avatars in net environments?, In Proceedings of the
Workshop ``Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and
evaluate them!'', held in conjunction with AAMAS-02, July
16 2002, Bologna, Italy
Full paper (166k - PDF)
Paper on NECA's Description Language
Piwek P., Krenn B., Schröder M., Grice M., Baumann S.,
Pirker H.: RRL: A Rich Representation Language for the
Description of Agent Behaviour in NECA, In Proceedings of the
Workshop ``Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and
evaluate them!'', held in conjunction with AAMAS-02, July
16 2002, Bologna, Italy
Full paper (235k - PDF)
D3a: Specification of Scene Descriptions for the NECA Domains
Deliverable by Paul Piwek, ITRI.
April 2002.
Full paper (430k - PDF)
D9b: Report on Affective Reasoning and Cultural Diversity
Deliverable by Martin Klesen, DFKI.
January 2002.
Full paper (480k - PDF)
A collection of more detailed information on Neca's XML based "Rich Representation Language" (RRL) can be found
here
